Tell me that not everything I wrote was bad.

The only love affair I have ever had was with music.

Why become a second-rate Ravel when you're already a first-rate Gershwin?

Music, I feel, must be emotional first and intellectual second.

I did my work slowly, drop by drop. I tore it out of me by pieces.

We should always remember that sensitiveness and emotion constitute the real content of a work of art

I do not ask for my music to be interpreted, but only for it to be played.

I begin by considering an effect.

You might lose your spontaneity and, instead of composing first-rate Gershwin, end up with second rate Ravel.

If he'd been making shell-cases during the war it might have been better for music.

To George Gershwin, on refusinghim as a pupil: You would only lose the spontaneous quality of your melody, and end by writing bad Ravel.

Information is not knowledge.Knowledge is not wisdom.Wisdom is not truth.Truth is not beauty.Beauty is not love.Love is not music.Music is THE BEST.

A moss which leaves its ocean becomes pale and dries up and a man which leaves his mother country is a moss which leaves it ocean!

What our laws show is the extent and degree to which conflict has to be suppressed.

... see well how it often befalls that to rise to the topmost degree would make it seem that the abyss is on high.

Where names of people or places would mean little to a contemporary reader, I figured "translation errors" could create interesting new meanings.

He doesn't get ulcers - he gives them.

A question may be asked, 'Will mothers have their children in eternity?' Yes! Yes! Mothers, you shall have your children.

I'm on a search for my future ex-wife.

Mindfulness is a pause - the space between stimulus and response: that's where choice lies.

I'm not sure what the moral is here...I really just wanted to tell that story.