Tones sound, and roar and storm about me until I have set them down in notes.

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy. Music is the electrical soil in which the spirit lives, thinks and invents.

I wish you music to help with the burdens of life ,and to help you release your happiness to others.

Don't only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets; art deserves that, for it and knowledge can raise man to the Divine.

Life would be flat without music. It is the background to all I do. It speaks to the heart in its own special way like nothing else.

To play without passion is inexcusable!

What I have in my heart and soul - must find a way out. That's the reason for music.

Then let us all do what is right, strive with all our might toward the unattainable, develop as fully as we can the gifts God has given us, and never stop learning

An artist is someone who has learned to trust in himself.

Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.

Hide your secret even from the closest friend; learn to be silent.

The only regret we should have is allowing regret to hold us back from taking action now.

I figured I only had about two seconds to live. It’s amazing how many thoughts you can have in two seconds.

Skepticism can keep us from blessing, can keep us trapped in two minds.

It's really interesting that whenever you do something that is so out of character, like having an emotional outburst, that you don't get in trouble.

I have a tendency toward being a micromanager. Which, the bigger the project you're involved in, the harder that becomes.

I actually liked the disolation of winter; it was the season when it was okay to be unhappy. If I were to ever kill myself, I thought it would be in the summer.

The universe can take quite a while to deliver.

It is not new or unusual for the real Americans, meaning those immigrants who came to America a little bit longer ago, to fear the outsiders, the pretenders, the newcomers.

Even rain and wind and stormy clouds bring joy, just as knowing animals and flowers and where they live.

Participation in the blessings of the union with Christ comes when the faithful have all the things needed to live well and blessedly to God.