He was making all kinds of sounds apparently with his mouth, and shaking his head and I thought, gosh, is he trying to stop the orchestra? Is it all wrong? It was just unbelievable.

A man will work and slave in obscurity for ten years and then become famous in ten minutes.

I Have traveled 201 countries including Hell (Norway), and the strangest thing I've seenwas man

My aunt had a season ticket for the Friday afternoon concerts, and I would go down for lessons. My lessons were Saturday morning.

Anybody who is born in Santa Rosa must turn out to be either an artist or a poet, for the spirit of the hills gets into your blood out there.

Why any one place should forever hold enchantment for the reason you are born there is a mystery.

Grieving doesn't make you imperfect. It makes you human.

As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.

I'm happy with what I'm doing. I try not to focus on how I've changed. I just try to focus on what I'm doing now.

I don't think 'pop' should mean that you had no talent.

I want the peace in knowing that is wasn't for lack of hustling that I missed a target for my dream. I want to know that the one thing in my control was under control.

Dear, lovely game of cricket that can stir us so profoundly, that can lift up our hearts and break them.

The face of totalitarianism turned out to be a mask - obviously - but the face of Capitalism has no face at all.

Writing is a strange synthesis between the two parts of your mind: the analytical side and the side that knows nothing at all, and you have to allow the dreaming side free rein.

Although no words can really help to ease the loss you bear, Just know that you are very close in every thought and prayer. To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.