Nothing can substitute for just plain hard work. I had to put in the time to get back. And it was...
If for understanding someone you need to listen patiently his or her story, for understanding an interpreter means listening to his music.
I am among the lucky ones who had the chance to turn their passion into profession.
There is two kinds of music the good and bad. I play the good kind.
My whole life, my whole soul, my whole spirit is to blow that horn...
As a rock star, I have two instincts, I want to have fun, and I want to change the world. I have a chance to do both.
Music can change the world because it can change people.
Truly there would be reason to go mad were it not for music.
Straight-away the ideas flow in upon me, directly from God, and not only do I see distinct themes in my mind's eye, but they are clothed in the right forms, harmonies, and orchestration.
Music, I feel, must be emotional first and intellectual second.
Music is the moonlight in the gloomy night of life.
The people who know nothing about music are the ones always talking about it.
I'm an interpreter of stories. When I perform it's like sitting down at my piano and telling fairy stories.
I may be helping to bring harmony between people through my music.
Great music is in a sense serene; it is certain of the values it asserts.
Music is the harmonious voice of creation; an echo of the invisible world.
Music before all else and for that choose the irregular, which is vaguer and melts better into the air.
Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.
Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears form the eyes of woman.
Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.
Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down.