Music, being identical with heaven, isn't a thing of momentary thrills, or even hourly ones. It's a condition of eternity.

Failure is the most important part of an artist's training, and one you cannot afford to do without.

I’ve learned what ‘classical’ means. It means something that sings and dances through sheer joy of existence.

There is no room in music for the second-rate - it might just as well be the nineteenth-rate.

One of the advantages of being over forty is that one begins to learn the difference between knowing and realising.

Always ask for advice but never take it.

Music-making as a means of getting money is hell

The Heavenly Spheres make music for us, The Holy Twelve dance with us, All things join in the dance! Ye who dance not, know not what we are knowing.

Danger confronted properly is not something a man must fear.

Just because you believe in fairies doesn't mean you have to believe everything they say!-Petra Godfellow

[O]nly if every individual strives for truth can humanity attain a happier future; the atavisms in each of us that stand in the way of a friendlier destiny can only thus be rendered ineffective.

There’s nothing wrong with ordinary. I just prefer to shoot for extraordinary.

I'll show you how," Peter said. "Stop hiding behind your ignorance.

When you invent something, you're drawing on reservoirs of knowledge that you already have. It's only when you're faithful to the truth that something can come to you from the outside.

Customs are made for customary circumstances, and customary characters.

Dissent is morally neutral. You can correctly call yourself a dissident because you like to kick puppies, but at the end of the day, you're just a jerk who likes to kick puppies.

Growth that adds volume without improving productivity is fat. Growth that diminishes productivity is cancer.

I remember being in high school and listening to Vivaldi's 'Winter' and being so overwhelmed with emotion.