I felt that this is the only thing which helps me to have hope... a sort of religion, actually. Music is God.

Life is beautiful. You have to be thankful that we are living. Wherever you look is beauty. I know about the bad things, but I look for the good things.

It depends on me whether life is good or not. Not on life, on me.

And life is beautiful, love is beautiful, nature and music are beautiful. Everything we experience is a gift, a present we should cherish and pass on to those we love.

Music saved my life and music saves me still...

Hatred eats the soul of the hater, not the hated.

Music was our way of remembering our inner selves, our values.

I have lived through many wars and have lost everything many times Yet, life is beautiful, and I have so much to learn and enjoy. I have no space nor time for pessimism and hate.

The worst thing in life is boredom. When people don't know what to do with themselves, they are very, very poor.

When you are optimistic, when you are not complaining, when you look at the good side of your life, everybody loves you.

Music was our food... When we can play, it can't be so terrible. The music, the music!

Progression is the lesson, elevation is the direction, and evolution is the solution proven through ones contribution.

After all, spinning is its own reward. There wouldn't be carousels if it weren't so.

The camera is my tool. Through it I give a reason to everything around me.

I can't see myself singing the same song twice in a row. That's terrible.

Since I essentially knew nothing, I had an almost completely free choice.

Art is amoral, whether we accept this or not; it does not take sides. The finest fictions are cold at heart.

Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all.

To win, I'd run over Joe's mom too.

Let our lives be good, and the times are good. We make our times; such as we are, such are the times.

To be alone by being part of the universe-fitting in completely to an environment of woods and silence and peace. Everything you do becomes a unity and a prayer. Unity within and without.