Intellectual isolation always follows commercial isolation.

If I miss one day of practice, I notice it. If I miss two days, the critics notice it. If I miss three days, the audience notices it.

I owe my sucess in one per cent to my talent, in ten per cent to luck, and in ninety per cent to hard word. Work, work, and more work is the secret to success.

I cannot imagine a genuinely happy home without music in it.

You are a dear soul who plays polo, and I am a poor Pole who plays solo.

If I do not practice one day; I know it. If I do not practice the next, the orchestra knows it; if I do not practice the third day, the whole world knows it.

The culture of any country is gauged first by its progress in art.

Art without technique is invertebrate, shapeless, characterless.

The very essence of success is practice.

When one is an artist, what else can he be?

Man is naturally lazy, therefore he invents labor-saving devices.

You are my butterfly, and I am your flower.

We cannot hand our faith to one another. ... Even in the Middle Ages when faith was theoretically uniform it was always practically individual.

Don't sell yourself short because without that you can't go far in life because after sports the only thing you know is sports and you can't do anything else with that.

Make at least one definite move daily toward your goal.

The wind which snuffs the candle fans the fire.

Dizzy used to tell me I'm playing too hard. He'd say to not give everything. Miles told me that too.

Though we explore in a culturally-conditioned way, the reality we sketch is universal.

Chic is nothing but the right nothing.

We walk through so many myths of each other and ourselves; we are so thankful when someone sees us for who we are and accepts us.

The trouble with learning to parent on the job is that your child is the teacher.