I kissed my first girl and smoked my first cigarette on the same day. I haven't had time for tobacco since.

If you want to please the critics, don't play too loud, too soft, too fast, too slow.

Liberty, in my opinion, is the only orthodoxy within the limits of which art may express itself and flourish freely-liberty that is the best of all things in the life of man, if it is all one with wisdom and virtue.

When I was young, I kissed my first woman and smoked my first cigarette on the same day. Believe me, never since have I wasted any more time on tobacco.”“After I die I shall return to earth as the doorkeeper of a bordello and I won't let a one of you in.

I hate you all because you destroy my dreams!

God tells me how the music should sound, but you stand in the way.

Can't you read? The score demands 'con amore,' and what are you doing? You are playing it like married men!