Love cannot express the idea of music, while music may give an idea of love

Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.

Music and love are the wings of the soul.

It is not enough that the artist should be well prepared for the public. The public must be well prepared for what it is going to hear.

To render my works properly requires a combination of extreme precision and irresistible verve, a regulated vehemence, a dreamy tenderness, and an almost morbid melancholy.

The luck of having talent is not enough; one must also have a talent for luck.

Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down.

At least I have the modesty to admit that lack of modesty is one of my failings.

Only by pairing knowledge with inspiration will art evolve. Without these conditions any musician will remain a flawed artist, if one may speak of an artist at all.

Bach is Bach just as God is God.

Time, time - that is our greatest master! Alas, like Ugolino, time devours its own children.

People don't always want to be with people. It gets tiring.

A biblical woman embraces God's callings, chooses wisely, lives courageously, and expects God's greater reward.

I wish I could read what she's written there. Instead, I pretend the letters are stars. The words, constellations.

Everything is connected

We stood and watched as God abandoned us, and then we did the best we could.

What used to frustrate me going into an audition was that some inexperienced, lesser casting people would think that actors are acting only when they're speaking.

The minute we think we went hard, go harder. We gotta work.

We don't want to survive. We want to be healed.

Of course, there are diseases of which people die.