If you have one true friend you have more than your share.
There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved.
Health is not valued till sickness comes.
Care and diligence bring luck.
This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before.
I'm not interested in having an orchestra sound like itself. I want it to sound like the composer.
In the olden days, everybody sang. You were expected to sing as well as talk. It was a mark of the cultured man to sing.
Technique is communication: the two words are synonymous in conductors.
A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, and a bright, infinite future.
Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.
To achieve great things, two things are needed; a plan, and not quite enough time.
There's not a lot of pop music in the mainstream that makes you feel scared, that makes you wonder what's happening.
Just sharing music with each other - that's cool. It's the selling that becomes the problem.
It might be a shock to see me, but that's no reason for people to act crazy, and it doesn't give them license to chase me down the street.
Every year, they ask me to play the Grammys.
It's work to play the same songs the same way for 70 shows.
I don't want anyone to fail, so if you can make money off music even though you can't sing or dance, that's genius.
I don't know who was the one that came up with the notion that you have to play the same songs every concert.
Hip-hop is very diverse, but if you only focus on one aspect of it, then what you get is this image of Black America that is completely contrary to what actually goes on.
It gets embarrassing to say something untrue because you put it online and everyone knows about it, so it's better to tell the truth.
I record all the time.
I always knew I had a relationship with God. But I wasn't sure God had a relationship with me.
I always wanted to make a three-record set. 'Sign o' the Times' was originally supposed to be a triple album, but it ended up as a double.
My father left his piano at the house when he left, and I wasn't allowed to play it when he was there because I wasn't as good as him. So when he left, I was determined to get as good as him, and I taught myself how to play music, and I just stuck with it, and I did it all the time.