Music is a kind of harmonious language.

Every kind of music is good, except the boring kind.

The language of music is common to all generations and nations; it is understood by everybody, since it is understood with the heart.

Give me a laundry list and I'll set it to music.

One can't judge Wagner's opera Lohengrin after a first hearing, and I certainly don't intend to hear it a second time.

Nothing primes inspiration more than necessity.

Beethoven I take twice a week, Haydn four times, and Mozart every day.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is the only musician who had as much knowledge asgenius, and as much genius as knowledge.

Answer them critics with silence and indifference. It works better, I assure you, than anger and argument. . . .

Nothing primes inspiration more than necessity, whether it be the presence of a copyist waiting for your work or the prodding of an impresario tearing his hair.

If Beethoven is a prodigy of man, Bach is a miracle of God.

Education is the antidote to many poisons.

countries who have a longer past are better able see further forward into the future and think about extending the time period that they've already been around into the distant future.

Protect your finest hours for your greatest work. Bring on your craft and lift us with you.

For he who lives more lives than one more deaths than one must die.

I love the Tea Party. They are the ultimate beer goggles. They make everything look better.

Tonight I have inundated you with the mystical kundalini. Now, of course, I'm moving into the supra-conscious; it's kind of a doubleheader this evening.

My experience at the 1992 Winter Olympics was my fulfillment of dreaming the Impossible Dream.

If my daughter has a bad dream and wants to get into my bed, I'm a sucker for her sweet face and warm body next to mine, so I let her jump in. I should tell her to go to bed, but secretly I love it.

When lightning strikes, the mouse is sometimes burned with the farm.

The excellence of every government is its adaptation to the state of those to be governed by it.