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.

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

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 is one thing to be gifted and quite another thing to be worthy of one's own gift.

The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.

Without discipline, there can be no freedom.

There is nothing boring in life except ourselves.