You can feel an emotion; just don't think that it's so important.

I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.

There is no such thing as an empty space or an empty time. There is always something to see, something to hear. In fact, try as we may to make a silence, we cannot.

Everything you do is music, and everywhere is the best seat.

The act of listening is in fact an act of composing.

The world is no longer a romantic place; some of its people still are however, and therein lies the promise. Don't let the world win.

It is not irritating to be where one is. It is only irritating to think one would like to be somewhere else.

If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all.

I have nothing to say, and I am saying it.

Good music can act as a guide to good living.

Look at everything. Don't close your eyes to the world around you. Look and become curious and interested in what there is to see.

I will look the part. I will act the part. I will deliver that which I have promised to deliver.

Do I hear a challenge?” she whispers, “Oh, Carlos. You know I can’t resist a challenge.

We [Jews] have no other means of self-defense than our solidarity

Imagination is essential and it comes first, for without imagination we are aimless.

I will be asking for forgiveness, but hopefully I won't have to be asking for much forgiveness.

Writing keeps me from believing everything I read.

Horace's best ode would not please a young woman as much as the mediocre verses of the young man she is in love with.

I ended up training only for four years before I was accepted into American Ballet Theater in New York City.

A definition is death. A definition is the answer to which you must look up the question in the back of your book.

Just from being with my grandmother, my maturity escalated. And now I'm in tune to the needs of people. It was a large responsibility, taking care of a human being.