I was a crazy young man who let himself be blinded by his passions and obeyed only the impulses of the moment.

Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire.

If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music.

Beauty and fullness of tone can be achieved by having the whole orchestra play with high clarinets and a carefully selected number of piccolos.

You must renounce all superficiality, all convention, all vanity and delusion.

The point is not to take the world's opinion as a guiding star but to go one's way in life and working unerringly, neither depressed by failure nor seduced by applause.

What is best in music is not to be found in the notes.

A symphony must be like the world. It must contain everything.

But it's peculiar, as soon as I am in the midst of nature and by myself, everything that is base and trivial vanishes without trace. On such days nothing scares me; and this helps me again and again.

I am hitting my head against the walls, but the walls are giving way.

If you think you're boring your audience, go slower not faster.

...I got to chase my dream for a while, see what it's like, but this—" He stood and swept his arms wide. "This, and my family, is worth any price.

Perception believed is reality achieved

I am relentlessly determine to be occupied with Jesus Christ and His Glorious Gospel and nothing else.

Let me not fear the tragedies of life but fear the triumphs.

I can't understand guys who just have to have your autograph. What do you do when you get home, take it out & look at it?

Ritual is necessary for us to know anything.

The crooks downtown figured out that comedy is like a hammer. It can put up a barn and it can knock down a wall. So they bought it outright and marketed it as Comedy Central.

To be up on stage and interacting with musicians, that was a huge epiphany for me.

Fighting for survival in a shattered world... the truth is her only hope.

It is stupid to tolerate Nikola; all Chekists have to be on alert to shoot anyone who doesn't turn up to work because of Nikola.