Passion, you see, can be destroyed by a doctor. It cannot be created.

All I ever wanted was to sing to God. He gave me that longing and then made me mute.

Passion, you see, can be destroyed by a doctor. It cannot be created.

The best of Mozart's works cannot be even slightly rewritten without diminishment.

You never quite know what's going to strike your imagination, or something that won't going to leave you alone, not going to leave alone, and this was one for me.

It's an extraordinary thing about Mozart is that you never tire of him... he never bores me, and he doesn't... not only bore me, that's too strong a word.

Goodness is nothing in the furnace of art.