We all make mistakes, but everyone makes different mistakes

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.

Courage isn't knowing you can do something

I don't even know how computer animation works, honestly, and I don't need to.

I'm not quite as much of a curmudgeon being old. I'm not cantankerous. But otherwise, I'm about the same.

What really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering.

I have a horror of silence while I'm writing. It's like the universe is howling at me if I don't have it.

The truth may hurt, but love helps ease the pain.

I think we've come a long way since then. The big thing that changed was when ecstasy came along in Britain.

I think there's a whole older generation that will go to movies still. People like me; people over 45.

I've had an interesting life.

What you do in secret tells you who your God is.