To Strauss the composer I take off my hat; to Strauss the man I put it back on again.

If you want to please the critics, don't play too loud, too soft, too fast, too slow.

Can't you read? The score demands 'con amore,' and what are you doing? You are playing it like married men!

I kissed my first girl and smoked my first cigarette on the same day. I haven't had time for tobacco since.

After I die, I shall return to earth as a gatekeeper of a bordello and I won't let any of you enter.

God tells me how the music should sound, but you stand in the way.

I hate you all because you destroy my dreams!

When I was very young I kissed my first woman and smoked my first cigarette on the same day. Believe me never since have I wasted any more time on tobacco.

God tells me how he wants the music played - and you get in his way.

Blessed is he who believes in the illusion because thus he can find his great truth!

So far nothing in your life has interfered with your reasoning process.

There are endearing people who come into our lives and leave a soul print.

They were of the past, and the past always mend itself, no matter how me interfere.

When currying favor with Washington is seen as a much easier way to make money, businesses inevitably begin to compete with rivals in securing government largess, rather than in winning customers.

It's a brutal regime, in the Assad regime, that is willing to take any measure, no matter how immoral or war criminal acts, to persecute its goals.

Health depends on being in harmony with our souls

Mobile is the future, and there's no such thing as communication overload.

I don't think of it at the moment, but the roles that interest me are those of young people.

We don’t need more ‘What if the mother is going to die’ debated, we need ‘I had an abortion because I was not ready to be a mother. It was my choice and my right. I own it. Back the f@#( up.