The brick of my life is music, but the mortar is faith.

If you hold onto the beauty and inspiration and the clarity that is music, you will have an anchor, you will not be too far swayed by what the world is

Music is like painting in sound. You take it into your inner heart and never lose it. It's eternally mysterious.

I have never known anyone from Texas, no matter how far they go or what they do, who isn't proud of being from Texas.

But classical music is not entertainment, and I feel viciously strong about that. Classical music is forever. Entertainment is something that is here today, and may be gone tomorrow.

An artist can only be evaluated after he's dead. At the 11th hour he might do something that will eclipse everything else.

The Steinway piano - with its beauty and power - is the perfect medium for expressing the performer's art, drama and poetry.

I'm not a success, I'm a sensation.

Everything I chose, I had already played in concert. For the competition, I wanted to pick pieces I know that people like.

We feel a lot of pressure about looking silly or appearing weak, whatever that means, or being a failure. You have to keep in your head: what's the worst that can happen?

I think in L.A., in terms of the music scene, it's a really strange place. It's really hard to get the feeling that something's happening, or the feeling that something can make it out of there.

I am a bleak heroism of words that refuse to be buried alive with the liars.

In the Gulf region and nationwide, small businesses are an integral and crucial part of local economies and communities. They should not be overlooked.

People are receptive in the best way when they are together enjoying themselves in a club; with others who are on the same wavelength. Then the experience becomes a very creative and spiritual thing.

As for the heart It needs a beginning The narrative Burden of events

My big concern is keeping people off the highways today, so that we have no further accidents.

I was drifting away like a drop in the ocean, and now I realize that nothing has been as beautiful as when I saw heaven's skies.

I had just done what she does in the story just about a year earlier - I moved from New Jersey and came to New York and was working at a bar, and you know, trying to make it.

Living for today will bring about dying for today. You can’t just think, ‘I’m going to die anyway,’ because that’s what’s stopping us from moving forward.