How can I be so evil? It ain't easy.
By the age of forty, a man is responsible for his face. And his fate.
I hold no preference among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous.
Poor Dimitri Shostakovich: In the Soviet Union, he was condemned as being too radical; in the West, for being too conservative. He could please no one but the musical public. He revenged himself on both by writing a short piece called 'March of the Soviet Police.'
In a nation of sheep, one brave man forms a majority.
Music begins where words leave off. Music expresses the inexpressible. If there is a Kingdom of Heaven, it lies in music.