Do not take up music unless you would rather die than not do so.

To study music, we must learn the rules. To create music, we must break them.

The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.

Life is denied by lack of attention, whether it be to cleaning windows or trying to write a masterpiece.

It is nothing to succeed if one has not taken great trouble, and it is nothing to fail if one has done the best one could.

Loving a child doesn't mean giving in to all his whims; to love him is to bring out the best in him, to teach him to love what is difficult.

The art of music is so deep and profound that to approach it very seriously only is not enough. One must approach music with a serious rigor and, at the same time, with a great, affectionate joy.

Do nothing for effect. Do it for truth.

Without discipline, there can be no freedom.

Nothing is better than music; when it takes us out of time, it has done more for us than we have the right to hope for.

False notes can be forgiven, false music cannot.

Life is so beautiful and so short that anything that makes me feel less than too much is nothing at all.

The Bronx is famous for two things. Hip-hop, and 26 world championships.

My friends come from many species.

Nothings makes a woman look older that a rich costume.

I always thought happiness was a choice and I always chose things that made me happy, and books were one of those.

Religion has very little to do with the number of babies per woman. All the religions in the world are fully [able] to maintain their values and adapt to this new world.

He's arm'd without that's innocent within; Be this thy Screen, and this thy Wall of Brass.

We came here to pick up chicks, not talk about dicks.

Always flat front. You've got to be deeply suspicious of a man who consciously goes with pleats. Why would you do that?

If you hire people just because they can do a job, they'll work for your money, but if they believe what you believe, they'll work for you with blood and sweat and tears.