If music could be translated into human speech, it would no longer need to exist.

Don't be too dismissive of children. While it's true that few children are artists, all artists are children.

Arguably, no artist grows up: If he sheds the perceptions of childhood, he ceases being an artist.

Divine fires do not blaze each day but an artist functions in their afterglow, hoping for their recurrence.

Inspiration could be called inhaling the memory of an act never experienced.

It's not evil that's ruining the earth, but mediocrity. The crime is not that Nero played while Rome burned, but that he played badly.

Humor is the ability to see three sides to one coin.

The beautiful are shyer than the ugly, for they move in a world that does not ask for beauty.

The art of translation lies less in knowing the other language than in knowing your own.

Nothing is a waste that makes a memory.

composition is notation of distortion of what composers think they've heard before. Masterpieces are marvelous misquotations.

You will never know the moon or stars, unless you breathe in their solar system and inspect it from many diverse vantage points as possible.

The best way to keep your daughter out of hot water is to put some dishes in it.

Sometimes she is struck by how much she goes through life almost unconsciously. She is being swept along. She is a pale ghost.

Habit is Heaven's own redress: it takes the place of happiness.

It wasn't enough for Megadeth to do well; I wanted Metallica to fail.

Many are they who have a taste and love for drawing, but no talent; and this will be discernible in boys who are not diligent and never finish their drawings with shading.

It is the eternal, inescapable law that growth comes only from work and preparation, whether the growth be material, mental, or spiritual. Work has no substitute.

The bourgeoisie cannot exist without constantly revolutionizing the instruments of production, and thereby the relations of production, and with them the whole relations of society.

His [Donald Trump ]comments are shocking, offensive and disturbing but I don't believe it merits a ban at this point in time.

Christ's resurrection not only gives you hope for the future; it gives you hope to handle your scars right now.