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

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.

Experience is a form of paralysis.

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.

The spiritual journey is an adventure of exploration that gradually starts to open up before us when we are ready to begin asking the questions, “Who am I? and “Who are you?

A Guide To Recognizing Your Saints' was the first real actor-actor part I did, and I hope I to do more. Action movies are fun, but I'd be happy not to do them if there are better roles.

What is light without dark? Right without left? What is goodness without the option to be evil?

People come around, oh Donald Trump did this or that. I never saw these people before, I don't know who they are.

The flatterer easily insinuates himself into the closet, while honest merit stands shivering in the hall or antechamber.

Certainly accountability of government is what people are clamoring for; they want to know that when lawmakers make a promise or a proposal, you can actually accomplish it.

Like my old mentor would always say, Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice and I'll be dead.'' Okay, she wasn't a good poet, but that lady could handle her whiskey.

When we went into the New England states, people were talking about the new sound of Flatt & Scruggs, but we had been doing that sound for 20 years.

There is no more great men; there is only great committees.

You can't do extraordinary things in the world if you're spending time criticizing others because they don't look or behave the way you think they should.