One's belief that one is sincere is not so dangerous as one's conviction that one is right. We all feel we are right; but we felt the same way twenty years ago and today we know we weren't always right.

My childhood was a period of waiting for the moment when I could send everyone and everything connected with it to hell.

Harpists spend 90 percent of their lives tuning their harps and 10 percent playing out of tune.

It's one of nature's way that we often feel closer to distant generations than to the generation immediately preceding us.

Music is the sole domain in which man realizes the present.

Invention presupposes imagination but should not be confused with it.

My God, so much I like to drink Scotch that sometimes I think my name is Igor Stra-whiskey.