You have to be first, different, or great. If you're one of them, you may make it.
You cannot play the piano well unless you are singing within you.
I have found that if you love life, life will love you back.
Never sound pompous. You always sound noble, noble. Absolute character of music is nobility. Even popular music can be noble, you see. If it's not noble, then it's not very good. . . Music is an art of emotion, of nobility, of dignity, of greatness, of love, of tenderness. All that must be brought out in music but never a show of pompousness.
Of course there is no formula for success, except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life, and what it brings
Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don't set any condition.
Don't tell me how talented you are. Tell me how hard you work.
All my family back to the 1700s were water Gypsies. My brothers and me, we were the first ones to be born on dry land. All the rest of them were born on barges in the canals.
We were always dreaming of how it was going to be.
Welcome to the age of paper money, where governments and central banks can manufacture as much money as they want without limit. Gold was the last limit. Its banishment as a standard unleashed the inflation monster and leviathan itself, which has swelled beyond comprehension.
If only religious leaders could be trusted, then maybe there wouldn't be so many problems. They have perverted any truth that the Bible may have.