In the beginning there was rhythm.

A tenor is not a man but a disease.

The three greatest composers are Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms. All the others are cretins.

In the beginning was rhythm.

You must have the score in your head, not your head in the score.

Maybe you think life is not worth living, but is death worth dying for?

People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.

I believe a good memoir should have all of the narrative elements of a novel: character development, dialogue, descriptive language, and metaphor.

Even if you are a pianist, your concerto repertoire is very limited compared to what your chamber repertoire would be if you were a chamber music pianist.

At an early age, you started hearing it: It's a virtue to be "well-rounded." ... They might as well have said : Become as dull as you possibly can be.

People always form images of who others are, and they can be inflated images.

Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.

Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something.

I just think Texas and that whole Bible Belt section is so, like, corporate. And I don't agree with organized religion in that respect.

It doesn't matter; even if you do tend to wear the same things all the time, it's how you wear them and your attitude that counts.