To play without passion is inexcusable!

Intellectual passion drives out sensuality.

Music can change the world because it can change people.

The spoken form is in fact a very restrained representation of what is possible in the musical language.

Once you become predictable, no one's interested anymore.

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

Critics are the men who have failed in literature and art.

I can't listen to that much Wagner. I start getting the urge to conquer Poland.

A great poet is the most precious jewel of a nation.

Every work of art is an uncommitted crime.

The only escape from the miseries of life are music and cats...

Every actor in his heart believes everything bad that's printed about him.

We're not trying to change the world; just music.

Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances.

Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.

Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.

The absence of limitations is the enemy of art.

The true art of memory is the art of attention.

Rhythm is something you either have or don't have, but when you have it, you have it all over.

Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.

Music with dinner is an insult, both to the cook and the violinist.