The highest reaches of music come thrillingly close to the central core and essence of life itself.

A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.

I simply make music, and people have always been foolish enough to pay me for it. I never told them that I would have done it all for nothing.

Conscience is that which hurts when everything else feels marvelous.

As a boy I remember how terribly real the statues of the saints would seem at 7 o'clock Mass-before I'd had breakfast. From that I learned always to conduct hungry.

Music appeals to me for what can be done with it.

On matters of intonation and technicalities I am more than a martinet - I am a martinetissimo.

Funny how women are ashamed of their inner fairy whereas men are forever proudly displaying their inner cowboy or fireman

Everything seems impossible And everything seems possible.

You have to respect all your competitors.

I don't respect religon. I don't respect superstitious thinking and that is what religous is.

When I'm inspired, I get excited because I can't wait to see what I'll come up with next.

Joe Biden was first elected to the Senate in 1972 at age 30. Somewhere around 1992, he should have had to go out and get a real job.

I think my most beautiful smile or laugh emerges when I'm happy.

Music and soccer. They would be my two major passions.

We live with the decisions we makeThat’s what bravery is. Standing by the consequences of your mistakes.