God sells us all things at the price of labor.
When you play Mozart, it's so clean, it's so simple. It's the body naked.
Whenever I listen to a children's orchestra, I learn. They feel everything, they enjoy everything, they have amazing energy.
Music is a fundamental human right
My main goal, and it's a big one, is that every child has a chance to get close to music - as a right - that as they have access to food, health, and education, they get the chance to have art and culture - especially music.
The challenge is not so much to change the sound. The challenge is to connect and to create something special.
It's not that people don't like classical music. It's that they don't have the chance to understand and to experience it.
The evening praises the day, and the morning a frost.
I'm planning my most ambitious tattoo yet. You can never have enough tats.
Civilization is a stream with banks. The stream is sometimes filled with blood from people killing, stealing, shouting and doing the things historians usually record, while on the banks, unnoticed, people build homes, make love, raise children, sing songs, write poetry and even whittle statues. The story of civilization is what happened on the banks.
It is a key fact about American policy in Vietnam that the withdrawel of American troops was built into it from the start. None of the presidents who waged war in Vietnam contemplated an open-ended campaign; all promised the public that American troops would be able to leave in the not-too-remote future. The promise of withdrawel precluded a policy of occupation of the traditional colonial sort, in which a great power simply imposes its will on a small one indefinitely.