The flute is not an instrument that has a good moral effect - it is too exciting.
US presidents can make all the commitments and declarations they want until they are blue in the face, in the Muslim world they will always be perceived as partisan.
Music has the capacity to create a greater reality.
There are many types of silence. There is a silence before the note, there is a silence at the end and there is a silence in the middle.
Every great work of art has two faces, one towards its own time and one towards future, towards eternity.
Anti-Semitism has no historical, political and certainly no philosophical origins. Anti-Semitism is a disease.
The French Revolution gave us three. . . powerful ideas, or concepts - liberty, equality and fraternity. But these ideas. . . are not only right in themselves, but they are so because they come in the proper order. You cannot have equality without liberty, and you certainly cannot have fraternity without equality. The importance of this I learnt from music, because music evolves in time, and therefore the order inevitably determines the content.
I just kind of understood it, and I threw my love for others and love for life into the character, and was having a blast. I loved playing Dharma. I loved it!
What is love? There is nothing in the world, neither man nor Devil nor any thing, that I hold as suspect as love, for it penetrates the soul more than any other thing. Nothing exists that so fills and binds the heart as love does. Therefore, unless you have those weapons that subdue it, the soul plunges through love into an immense abyss.
If you go to YouTube and look up 'grief' you can find them and it's just an unbelievable tool for an actor to be able to access, without being unethical. It's like accessing the deepest, most painful parts of a person.
There can never be any substitute for your own palate nor any better education than tasting the wine yourself.