Life and art are not two different things.

It's not that music is too imprecise for words, but too precise.

The trombone is too sacred for frequent use.

This is what I think art is and what I demand of it: that it pull everyone in, that it show one person another's most intimate thoughts and feelings, that it throw open the window of the soul.

The essence of beauty is unity in variety.

Pray to God that He might create is us a clean heart and renew a right spirit within us.

These, too, seem to me so ambiguous, so vague, so easily misunderstood in comparison to genuine music, which fills the soul with a thousand things better than words.

Never mind, put any book on the piano, and someone can turn from time to time, so I need not look as though I played by heart.

These seem to me so ambiguous, so vague, so easily misunderstood in comparison to genuine music, which fills the soul with a thousand things better than words.

We walked to meet each other up at the time of our love and then we have been irresistibly drifting in different directions, and there's no altering that.

The best way to avoid becoming a scapegoat is to find one.

Philosophy as well as foppery often changes fashion.

I never wanted to leave the Smashing Pumpkins. That was never the plan.

Mother Very Easily Made Jam Sandwiches Under No Protest

The flu is very unpredictable when it begins and in how it takes off.

Actually, in my own life I think I probably feign neuroses to be more interesting than I am.

What is the most rigorous law of our being? Growth. No smallest atom of our moral, mental, or physical structure can stand still a year. It grows - it must grow; nothing can prevent it.

It is one of the main teachings of the profound traditional wisdom of India, that the Primordial Mother is the origin of all things and verything tends to flow naturally back towards her.

Agriculture is at the same time the most tranquil, healthy, and independent occupation.