I sit down to the piano regularly at nine-o'clock in the morning and Mesdames les Muses have learned to be on time for that rendezvous.

Music is an incomparably more powerful means and is a subtler language for expressing the thousand different moments of the soul's moods.

Where the heart does not enter; there can be no music.

To regret the past, to hope in the future, and never to be satisfied with the present: that is what I spend my whole life doing

Truly there would be reason to go mad were it not for music.

Inspiration is a guest that does not willingly visit the lazy.

Madam, you ask me how I compose. I compose sitting down.

Music possesses much richer means of expression and it is a more subtle medium for translating the 1000 shifting moments of the feelings of the soul.

After the last notes of Gotterdammerung I felt as though I had been let out of prison.

I like the plot of The Nutcracker - not at all.

The creative process is like music which takes root with extraordinary force and rapidity

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

Talk is free but the wise man chooses when to spend his words.

One lived in the impression that nobody could ever compete with the 'Nutcracker' or 'A Christmas Carol.'

Liberty, equality, fraternity, or death; - the last, much the easiest to bestow, O Guillotine!

There is in the heart of woman such a deep well of love that no age can freeze it.

The blanket was there, but it was the boy's embrace that covered and warmed him.

There is a way out, but the way out is really a way within.

Fighting for social justice is not about leaving the mainstream. It is about being right in the middle of it.

Its a strange world. Lets keep it that way.

Women have their own strengths, like fashion. In technology, we can contribute in a big way in terms of the design of the user interface.