You should never listen to someone practice. That is their work and theirs alone.

To study music, we must learn the rules. To create music, we must break them.

The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.

Life is denied by lack of attention, whether it be to cleaning windows or trying to write a masterpiece.

It is nothing to succeed if one has not taken great trouble, and it is nothing to fail if one has done the best one could.

Loving a child doesn't mean giving in to all his whims; to love him is to bring out the best in him, to teach him to love what is difficult.

The art of music is so deep and profound that to approach it very seriously only is not enough. One must approach music with a serious rigor and, at the same time, with a great, affectionate joy.

Do not take up music unless you would rather die than not do so.

Do nothing for effect. Do it for truth.

Without discipline, there can be no freedom.

Nothing is better than music; when it takes us out of time, it has done more for us than we have the right to hope for.

Always remember to smile and look up at what you got in life.

Our expression and our words never coincide, which is why the animals don't understand us.

The average American is for the underdog, but only on the condition that he has a chance to win.

Courage frees us from the fears that would rob us of life itself.

Being alone at night is scary sometimes.

Having your work be the basis of fame, that's a far more stable feeling.

Happiness is a small and unworthy goal for something as big and fancy as a whole lifetime, and should be taken in small doses.

The scandalous bronze-lacquer age of hungry animalisms, spiritual impotences, and mendacities, will have to run its course, till the pit follow it.

Just dying should not be a reason for taxes.

I haven't done anything that can match up to what I learnt about myself as an actress and as a person or the friends that I made.