The main thing is to be satisfied with your work yourself. It's useless to have an audience happy if you are not happy.

To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable.

So long as the human spirit thrives on this planet, music in some living form will accompany and sustain it and give it expressive meaning.

The greatest moments of the human spirit may be deduced from the greatest moments in music.

Most people use music as a couch; they want to be pillowed on it, relaxed and consoled for the stress of daily living. But serious music was never meant to be soporific.

Listening to the Fifth Symphony of Ralph Vaughan Williams is like staring at a cow for 45 minutes.

If you want to know about the Sixties, play the music of The Beatles.

Music that is born complex is not inherently better or worse than music that is born simple.

Composers tend to assume that everyone loves music. Surprisingly enough, everyone doesn’t.

A melody is not merely something you can hum.

Someone once asked me... whether I waited for inspiration. My answer was: "Every day!"

Courage originally meant "To speak one's mind by telling all one's heart.

Love yourself to fill your heart with kindness.Then love others to fill the world with happiness.

The noble-minded encourage what is beautiful in people and discourage what is ugly in them. Little people do just the opposite.

Wounds are wounds. Scars are scars. They can heal but not vanish.

Calvin : There's no problem so awful, that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse.

Having inner peace means committing to letting go of self-criticism and self-doubt.

People have their own deaths as well as their own lives, and even if there is nothing beyond death, we shall differ in our nothingness.

Men of ideas and men of action have much to learn from each other, and the truly great are men of both action and abstraction.

To be a witness means to live in such a way that one's life would not make sense if God did not exist.

Love should bring joy, it should grant a person peace, but here and not, it was bringing only pain.