Two years of close association with some of the best (as well as some of the worst) tunes in the world was a better musical education than any amount of sonatas and fugues.

The art of music above all the other arts is the expression of the soul of a nation.

Music is the reaching out towards the utmost realities by means of ordered sound.

But in the next world I shan't be doing music, with all the striving and disappointments. I shall be being it.

I have always found it difficult to study. I have learnt almost entirely what I have learnt by trying it out on the dog.

The duty of the words is to say just as much as the music has left unsaid and no more.

There is no reason why an atheist could not write a good Mass.

I suppose it never occurs to these people that a man might just want to write a piece of music.

Wagner used to read the libretti of his operas to his friends; I am glad I was not there.

To the unmusical hearer a note on the gong means dinner, this perhaps often is menacing enough.

It looks wrong, and it sounds wrong, but it's right.

Now that she had nothing to lose, she was free.

When one matures in life is when one knows we never grow up

When you remain present to the goal at hand, you become ready to receive a powerful gift.

We may sing our hymns and psalms, and offer prayers, but they will be an abomination to God, unless we are willing to be thoroughly straightforward in our daily life.

I've always found it much more dangerous to fool with a man's mistress than his wife.

The best introduction to the psychological world of one of the most important and gifted writers of our time.

Perhaps the most important marketing step any business can take is to discover a way to be different.

In this age, the mere example of nonconformity, the mere refusal to bend the knee to custom, is itself a service.

If he was winter, I was summer. If I was sunshine, he was night. A dark and stormy one.

History is the memory of a nation