I lived through the garbage. I might as well dine on the caviar.
There were times in my career ... when I felt like a trapeze artist doing dangerous somersaults without a net underneath. When you execute those somersaults flawlessly, the audience feels the same sense of triumph the performer does.
Why let one high C ruin your whole evening?
In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.
Art is the signature of civilizations.
A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit him to stand beyond it in an autonomy of perception and judgment.