You should never listen to someone practice. That is their work and theirs alone.

Nothing is better than music; when it takes us out of time, it has done more for us than we have the right to hope for: it has broadened the limits of our sorrowful life, it has lit up the sweetness of our hours of happiness by effacing the pettinesses that diminish us, bringing us back pure and new to what was, what will be, what music has created for us.

The Constitution of the United States is not a mere lawyers' document; it is a vehicle of life, and its spirit is always the spirit of the age.

A great work is made out of a combination of obedience and liberty.

Never forget that your days are blessed. You may know how to profit by them, or you may not, but they are blesses.

Without a strong cup to carry the emotion, it is only a curiosity. Great art can come to us only in strong cups. Without emotion, there is nothing to carry.

Art is not emotion. Art is the medium in which emotion is expressed.