Just know that someone out there always has it worst, and you should try to realize that there really is a lot to look forward to
Tradition demands that we not speak poorly of the dead.
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.
If the timing's right and the gods are with you, something special happens.
Artists have to be useful. They have to fill a role.
Responsibility is the price of freedom.
The atheist realizes that there must not only be an acceptance of his right to hold his opinion, but that ultimately his is the job to turn his culture from religion, to eliminate those irrational ideas which have held the human race in intellectual slavery.