Handel is the greatest composer that ever lived... I would uncover my head and kneel down on his tomb.

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy. Music is the electrical soil in which the spirit lives, thinks and invents.

I wish you music to help with the burdens of life ,and to help you release your happiness to others.

Don't only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets; art deserves that, for it and knowledge can raise man to the Divine.

Life would be flat without music. It is the background to all I do. It speaks to the heart in its own special way like nothing else.

To play without passion is inexcusable!

What I have in my heart and soul - must find a way out. That's the reason for music.

Then let us all do what is right, strive with all our might toward the unattainable, develop as fully as we can the gifts God has given us, and never stop learning

An artist is someone who has learned to trust in himself.

Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.

Hide your secret even from the closest friend; learn to be silent.

Loving someone is sticking a pin through a voodoo doll and not hitting any vital organs

A lot of the characters I play are very naive, and I don't think I'm like that. And I'm not stupid!

Slowness is frequently the cause of much greater slowness.

The kids today, they think they can dance with their faces.

I try and be as normal as I can, but it's all pretty mental to be honest.

Growth and self-transformation cannot be delegated.

Doesn't every kid want to dig a hold to China? Didn't you? What about Chinese children?

My grandfather always said a sudden shiver meant someone had just stepped on the spot where your grave would be.

I always thought of my career as a body of work and not just about numbers.

Let there be gall enough in thy ink, though thou write with a goose-pen, no matter.