When I was young, people used to say to me: Wait until you're fifty, you'll see. I am fifty. I haven't seen anything.

The musician is perhaps the most modest of animals, but he is also the proudest.

I am by far your superior, but my notorious modesty prevents me from saying so.

Why attack God? He may be as miserable as we are.

I came into the world very young, in an age that was very old.

I am tired of always dying with a broken heart.

I have never written a note I didn't mean.