To achieve great things, two things are needed; a plan, and not quite enough time.

The key to the mystery of a great artist is that for reasons unknown, he will give away his energies and his life just to make sure that one note follows another... and leaves us with the feeling that something is right in the world.

Life without music is unthinkable. Life without music is academic. That is why my contact with music is a total embrace.

The second fiddle. I can get plenty of first violinists, but to find someone who can play the second fiddle with enthusiasm

From New Year's on the outlook brightens; good humor lost in a mood of failure returns. I resolve to stop complaining.

When the study of the arts leads to the adoration of the formula (heaven forbid), we shall be lost.

I believe that man's noblest endowment is his capacity to change.