People who aren't artists often feel that artists are inspired. But if you work at your art you don't have time to be inspired.

Let no one imagine that in owning a recording he has the music. The very practice of music is a celebration that we own nothing.

Some people take music too seriously, and some don't take it seriously enough, others take it just right.

Try as we may to make a silence, we cannot.

The world is teeming; anything can happen.

The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason.

Be happy whenever you can manage it. Enjoy yourself. It's lighter than you think.