Tonight I'm going to listen with my ears.

I don't mean to make you nervous, but unfortunately I have to.

I never say what I mean, but I always manage to say something similar.

I can conduct better than I count.

The notes are right, but if I listened they would be wrong.

Tonight I'm going to listen with my ears.

There is a shadow on every page.

It's hot as hell as can be.

I wrote it the right way, so it was copied the wrong way right. I mean the right way wrong.

I told him he'd have a heart attack a year ago, but unfortunately he lived a year longer.

I'm one of the boys, no better than the last second violinist. I'm just the lucky one to be standing in the center, telling them how to play.

Why do you always insist on playing while I'm trying to conduct?

During the rests - pray.

It is not as difficult as I thought it was, but it is harder than it is.

If you don't have it in your part, leave it out, because there is enough missing already.

Beauty is less important than quality.

Death is an awful thing. I don't believe in it myself.

Let me explain what I do here. I don't want to confuse you any more than absolutely necessary.

Even when you are not playing you are holding me back.

With us tonight is William Warfield, who is with us tonight. He is a wonderful man, and so is his wife.

It is not together, but the ensemble is perfect.

It's all very well to have principles, but when it comes to money you have to be flexible.

We can't hear the balance yet because the soloist is still on the airplane.

The top players talk more now, and we have more meetings. We're just trying to get things better. But we still need somebody who could make a difference.

Religion leaves no room for human complexity.

Our castle is not imposing but is well built and surrounded by a very fine garden. I live in the bailiffs house.

Success is not only one thing. It's not only having a nice house in Beverly Hills and driving a nice Mercedes.

We know we can't win the Cup every year. But we certainly can be in position to win the Cup every year, and if we've done that, I think we've earned our paycheck.

It's a big theme in my life, learning about myself and being a better person. I'm a work in progress; I have revelations every day.

Hatred paralyzes life, love releases it. Hatred onfuses life, love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life, love illuminates it.

Oh boy, I grew up hearing Sam Cooke, The Soul Stirrers, Mahalia Jackson, sitting on Mahalia Jackson's lap in my dad's church.

Mother is her son's first god; she must teach him the most important lesson of all - how to love.

I didn't want to stop before my time was up.

The American fascists are most easily recognized by their deliberate perversion of truth and fact. Their newspapers and propaganda carefully cultivate every fissure of disunity, every crack in the common front against fascism.

I still take advice from my mum on what clothes look good on me. I used to listen to her a lot more, but I've started to choose my own things from time to time.

I think if I had to choose, I would rather have gravity instead of zero gravity. It's fun for a while, but I'd rather live on Earth.

I'm not afraid to be lonely at the top.

Two bubbles found they had rainbows on their curves. They flickered out saying It was worth being a bubble just to have held that rainbow thirty seconds.

I carry a notebook and write down things to do, and I write out thoughts and stuff like that.

I was an adventurer, but she was not an adventuress. She was a 'wanderess.' Thus, she didn't care about money, only experiences - whether they came from wealth or from poverty, it was all the same to her.

Nature makes us buy her presents at the price of so many sufferings that it is doubtful whether she deserves most the name of parent or stepmother.

People have so many hang-ups about how other people live their lives. People always want to keep you in a little box, or they need to label you and fix you in time and location.

I love classical music; I love the way it's worked... all those chord sequences so I often use that sort of effect in my solos.

Christianity takes for granted the absence of any self help and offers a power which is nothing less than the power of God.

When a system is stable, telling the worker about mistakes is only tampering.

The disposition to admire, and almost to worship, the rich and the powerful, and to despise, or, at least, to neglect persons of poor and mean condition is the great and most universal cause of the corruption of our moral sentiments.

As can be seen even by this limited number of examples proteins carry out amazingly diverse functions.