It sounds very simple, but the truth is most people don't give themselves the opportunity to do what they really want to do, because they feel trappe….

Look, you come in here tomorrow, and anything you do with your right hand I'll do with my left..

Music like religion, unconditionally brings in its train all the moral virtues to the heart it enters, even though that heart is not in the least wor….

Better to be the failure who nobly strived than the success who never really had to..

That's life again. We can't decide what we like..

If somebody says, "Oh, we're going to improvise!," I'm like, Oh, get me out of here..

Where both are friends, it is right to prefer truth..

It is essential to do everything possible to attract young people to opera so they can see that it is not some antiquated art form but a repository o….

The gods are cruel not because they make us work. They are cruel because they allow us to hope..

The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist..

The more you fulfill yourself, the less you will seek God..

No faith is our own that we have not arduously won..

I spent my 30s figuring out how to be a grown up, I guess. I loved my 30s! My 30s were really about being happy with what I was doing..

In these days of political, personal and economic disintegration, music is not a luxury, it's a necessity; not simply because it is therapeutic, nor ….

Percy yelled. "What's going- Gah! Shrimpzilla!.

Always do something that requires you and your date to talk..

We all see only that which we are trained to see..

If we compel the composer to write in terms of what the listener is able to hear, we flirt with the danger of freezing the evolution of musical langu….

I have never acknowledged the difference between serious music and light music. There is only good music and bad music..

The thing is this: When I play, what I try to do is to reach my subconscious level. I don't want to overtly think about anything, because you can't t….

I don’t approve of religion..