There are more bad musicians than there is bad music.

Everywhere in the world, music enhances a hall, with one exception: Carnegie Hall enhances the music.

Mozart's music is like an X-ray of your soul - it shows what is there, and what isn't.

Music is the thousandth of a millisecond between one note and another; how you get from one to the other-that's where the music is.

Music is like making love: either all or nothing.

When you believe in something, you can move mountains.

It is only through failure and through experiment that we learn and grow.

Music is not an acquired culture... it is an active part of life.

A man possesses talent; genius possesses the man.

A conductor has to know how to translate music into a communicative force that makes the listener want to hear what he has to say.

New York is the dirtiest, largest, ugliest, broken-down city in the world-but it's the only one.

Comedy is a necessity to get through life with the fewest scars. Humor is the best antidote to help relieve all struggles.

It must be an odd person indeed that can say for certain they are normal.

The future is always unknown.

You marvel and applaud big heroes in their big heroic actions, and forget you are a hero in your humble life and have modest heroic actions to complete yourself.

To remain silent is the most useful service that a mediocre speaker can render to the public good.

Injustice can never be stood for.

I didn't know if it would be a success-ful one, or what the stages would be, but I always saw myself as a lifetime musician and songwriter.

I love historical movies. I want to make a violent medieval epic.

I love the United States, but I see here everything is measured by success, by how much money it makes, not the satisfaction to the individual.

Before facing you enemy, you must first face yourself.