On the subject of wild mushrooms, it is easy to tell who is an expert and who is not: The expert is the one who is still alive.

It might be argued that genuine spontaneity is not really possible or desirable so long as printed scores of great works exist. All modern musicians are, for better or worse, prisoners of Gutenberg.

The human brain can soften as a result of incessant listening to music with an intent to commit prose.

The more disastrous the mishaps the simpler the reviewing task.

Next to the writer of real estate advertisements, the autobiographer is the most suspect of prose artists.

[Rubinstein was] a fountain from which music spouted, not a recitalist.

Real folk music long ago went to Nashville and left no known survivors.

The irrepressible spirit that made his playing seem like good conversation is the Rubinstein legacy for pianists, if they can pick up their heads from the keyboard long enough to claim it.

Good luck in a way is bad luck not occurring, but the world wants stories of how bad luck happened, and how good luck played a savior.

It's a sad man my friend who's livin' in his own skin and can't stand the company.

At the end of any really long tour you need to get your head in order.

All artists are constantly looking for something and they don't always know what.

Philosophy teaches you to think big.

I'm not searching for the truth.That's too much pressure .

There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.

Hillary Clinton does not have to worry about the sirens and the gunshots night. She doesn't worry about it. She's sleeping. She's sleeping.

I looked at Mick Jagger and Keith Richards and the boys up there thinking, I want to be that.

I think the support of the other team at AOL and everybody's really shared passion and belief about this and - saying that some day everybody was going to be on line.