It's my singing that allows me to stand apart.
Address to Albert Einstein: You are not thinking. You are merely being logical.
If you think you understand it, that only shows that you don't know the first thing about it.
We are all agreed that your theory is crazy. The question which divides us is whether it is crazy enough to have a chance of being correct. My own feeling is that it is not crazy enough.
If we couldn't laugh at ourselves, that would be the end of everything.
The opposite of every great idea is another great idea.
It is a great pity that human beings cannot find all of their satisfaction in scientific contemplativeness.
I will try to account for the degree of my aesthetic emotion. That, I conceive, is the function of the critic.
Being a classical musician I'm fascinated with how my colleagues, not just singers, but every musician finds ways to express something else or something new or the same ol', same ol' in classical music. I'm always in dialogue with other musicians at least orally, if I can't be with them and a lot of dead musicians as well. I've learned a lot from dead people on recordings.
The nature of mind: much of its power seems to stem from just the messy ways its agents cross-connect. . . . it's only what we must expect from evolution's countless tricks.
Water is the most expressive element in nature. It responds to every mood from tranquility to turbulence.