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.

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

Music and love are the wings of the soul.

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

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.

Bach is Bach just as God is God.

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

Build a valuable brand by branding what is valuable about you.

When religion becomes so involved in a future good "over yonder" that it forgets the present evils over here it is as dry as dust religion and needs to be condemned.

Do you know the one about how politics is show business for the ugly? State politics is show business for ugly people who can't remember their lines.

Technology has advanced more in the last thirty years than in the previous two thousand. The exponential increase in advancement will only continue.

When you walk into a room, a healthy, beautiful smile is incredibly important.

The race doesn't always belong to the swift nor the battle to the strong. It belongs rather to those who run the race, who stay the course and who fight the good fight.

I totally take back all those times I didn't want to nap when I was younger. - T-SHIRT

There are some people who would never have fallen in love if they had not heard there was such a thing.

Good-fellowship, unflagging, is the prime requisite for success in our society, and the man or woman who smiles only for reasons of humor or pleasure is a deviate.

Nothing makes a woman more beautiful than the belief that she is beautiful.