Experience is a form of paralysis.

Before I compose a piece, I walk round it several times, accompanied by myself.

Je suis venu au monde tres jeune dans un temps tres vieux

I am by far your superior, but my notorious modesty prevents me from saying so.

When I was young, people used to say to me: Wait until you're fifty, you'll see. I am fifty. I haven't seen anything.

Why attack God? He may be as miserable as we are.

I am tired of always dying with a broken heart.

The musician is perhaps the most modest of animals, but he is also the proudest.

I have never written a note I didn't mean.

I came into the world very young, in an age that was very old.

We should have a music of our own - if possible, without any Sauerkraut.

You become a better person by caring and loving other creations.

A good quote: A timeless capsule of truth.

It is the death of hope that comes as the greatest relief

It's the spirit within, not the veneer without, that makes a man.

Ninety-seven saint days a year wouldn't affect the theater, but two Yom Kippurs would ruin it.

You can have all you can expect and accept.

He was tall and scrawny with a face that could be mistaken with Keith Richards on a bad day.

Perdonare "Forgive Yourself)

If there is knowledge, it lies in the fusion of the book and the street.

I'm a person who gets better with practice. Getting older is awesome - because you get more practice.