Art is making something better without knowing what better is until you make it.
don't perspire while conducting - only the audience should get warm.
I may not be a first-rate composer, but I am a first-class second-rate composer.
The human voice is the most beautiful instrument of all, but the most difficult to play.
I want to be able to depict in music a glass of beer so accurately that every listener can tell whether it is a Pilsner or a Kulmbacher.
I shall never be converted, and I shall remain true to my old religion of the classics until my life's end.
Ideas, like young wine, should be put in storage and taken up again only after they have been allowed to ferment and to ripen.
The whole campaign was a tragic case of mistaken identity.
The new evangelization calls for followers of Christ who are unconditionally pro-life: who will proclaim, celebrate and serve the Gospel of life in every situation. A sign of hope is the increasing recognition that the dignity of human life must never be taken away, even in the case of someone who has done great evil. . . . I renew the appeal I made. . . for a consensus to end the death penalty, which is both cruel and unnecessary.
You don't value families if you force them to take up a collection to buy body armor for a son or daughter in the service.
Queen Guenever, for whom I make here a little mention, that while she lived she was a true lover, and therefore she had a good end.