The longer you live and the more you learn, the more clearly you will feel the difference between the few men who are truly great and the mere virtuosi.

Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire.

If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music.

Beauty and fullness of tone can be achieved by having the whole orchestra play with high clarinets and a carefully selected number of piccolos.

You must renounce all superficiality, all convention, all vanity and delusion.

The point is not to take the world's opinion as a guiding star but to go one's way in life and working unerringly, neither depressed by failure nor seduced by applause.

What is best in music is not to be found in the notes.

A symphony must be like the world. It must contain everything.

But it's peculiar, as soon as I am in the midst of nature and by myself, everything that is base and trivial vanishes without trace. On such days nothing scares me; and this helps me again and again.

I am hitting my head against the walls, but the walls are giving way.

If you think you're boring your audience, go slower not faster.

God has witnessed everything done to you. Those that love God will feel shame for what they did. Those that don't ....do not know God or have a concept of repentance or forgiveness.

With confidence, you have won before you have started.

There is no creation without tradition

I come in peace unto you

Authentic human interactions become impossible when you lose yourself in a role.

You have to treat it like a fresh character. Sure, there are guidelines so that you don't upset people, but you have to find your own way.

Steve Jobs was a real rock star to me. I looked forward to his products like people look forward to albums.

Godliness consists in the knowledge love & worship of God, Humanity in love, righteousness & good offices towards man.

Popular psychology is a mass of cant, of slush and of superstition worthy of the most flourishing days of the medicine man.

Gazing into the mirror, I saw myself as I was-a black silhouette in the room, a woman whose darkness had completely leaked through.