The answer to helplessness is not so very complicated.

The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?

The simplest things in music are the ones that count. The simplest thing are, of course, also the most difficult to achieve and take years of work.

The greatest respect an artist can pay to music is to give it life.

Each person has inside a basic decency and goodness. If he listens to it and acts on it, he is giving a great deal of what it is the world needs most. It is not complicated but it takes courage. It takes courage for a person to listen to his own goodness and act on it.

Let us not forget that the greatest composers were also the greatest thieves. They stole from everyone and everywhere.

The first thing to do in life is to do with purpose what one purposes to do.