My destiny is solitude, and my life is work.

Divorce is one of the most financially traumatic things you can go through. Money spent on getting mad or getting even is money wasted.

Music is the inarticulate speech of the heart, which cannot be compressed into words, because it is infinite.

When religion becomes artificial, art has a duty to rescue it. Art can show that the symbols which religions would have us believe literally true are actually figurative. Art can idealize those symbols, and so reveal the profound truths they contain.

Imagination creates reality.

Music truely has to all other arts the same relation as religion to the church.

The only form of music is melody, without melody music is not feasible, and music and melody are quite inseparable.