There are things I cannot say..

I am Jewish, but Beethoven is my religion..

Action indeed is the sole medium of expression for ethics..

Christmas is not only where you find it; it's what you make of it..

Death isn't sad. There's nothing sad about it. Living a shitty life, that's sad..

Grace must find expression in life, otherwise it is not grace..

Good is latent in every living thing and simply needs to be called into active expression through the gracious application of respect, sympathetic un….

I was 22 when JFK was murdered, and I will never recover from it... Never..

Complete control can be the death of a work..

Whether it's coming from FDR or it's coming from Ronald Reagan, if the idea is right for the times then we're gonna apply it. And things that don't w….

Studying the behavior of large whales has been likened to astronomy. The observer glimpses his subjects, often at long range; he cannot do experiment….

That cry of the soul to be lifted out of the bondage of the narrow circle of life, which carries up to God the protest and yearning of suffering man,….

From my own experience in dealing with the Nazi-grandpas, who have now clearly made a return, I would recommend a bit of fundamental imperturbability..

Now and then, there's a fool such as I..

‎I am something that was. and I am something that not yet..

When you cannot measure, your knowledge is meager and unsatisfactory..

We take what what we can get..

Everybody sings from their diaphragm..

What you create for you, no one can take from you..

What do we do now, now that we are happy?.

There's very little to be said for learning a piece note by note, reading the rhythmic markings, practising the fingerings and following your instruc….