The most perfect technique is that which is not noticed at all.

I am perhaps the oldest musician in the world. I am an old man but in many senses a very young man. And this is what I want you to be, young, young all your life, and to say things to the world that are true.

We ought to think that we are one of the leaves of a tree, and the tree is all humanity. We cannot live without the others, without the tree.

Man has made many machines, complex and cunning, but which of them indeed rivals the workings of his heart?

To retire is to begin to die.

Music will save the world.

Let us not forget that the greatest composers were also the greatest thieves. They stole from everyone and everywhere.

The first thing to do in life is to do with purpose what one purposes to do.

The heart of the melody can never be put down on paper.

I feel the capacity to care is the thing which gives life its deepest significance.

You must work - we must all work to make the world worthy of its children.

Each person has inside a basic decency and goodness. If he listens to it and acts on it, he is giving a great deal of what it is the world needs most. It is not complicated but it takes courage. It takes courage for a person to listen to his own goodness and act on it.

To retire is to die.

The most perfect technique is that which is not noticed at all.

The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?

Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart.

The child must know that he is a miracle, that since the beginning of the world there hasn't been, and until the end of the world there will not be, another child like him.

The art of interpretation is not to play what is written.

As long as one can admire and love, then one is young forever.

The Cello is like a beautiful woman who has not grown older but younger with time more slender more supple more graceful.

The capacity to care is what gives life its most deepest significance.

The art of interpretation is not to play what is written.

Even miracles take a little time.

Don't play the notes. Play the meaning of the notes.

The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border

There is no substitute for work; what seems ease of performance comes from the greatest labor.

Rock n' roll is poison put to sound.

The first day one is a guest the second a burden and the third a pest.

On stage you need to emphasize every emotion. But on screen you need to tone everything down and make it believable.

I will certainly not join politics. I would like to be remembered as a clean businessman who has not partaken in any twists and turns beneath the surface, and one who has been reasonably successful.

No violent extreme endures.

Letting go may sound so simple, but rarely is it a one-time thing. Just keep letting go, until one day it's gone for good.

If you learn the craft you can make a movie and get by with tricks.

Well, again, a gun sale database is just trying to get the Department of Justice to keep track of the guns that they're purchasing and supplying to drug dealers and murderers. I mean, wow. Come on, let's get the government under control before we start restricting the rights of - innocent citizens.

People give one another things that can't be gift wrapped.

One has to take initiative in life to achieve what he or she wants.

I am no longer able to be anonymous.

Not often do you approach a character where people know more about him than you do.

They always want me to play myself and that's a big snooze.

The highest pay cheque my mother ever received funded the building of a nursery school in Shepherd's Bush - the school cost well over three times the money she donated to the making of the film 'The Palestinian.' Unsurprisingly this always goes unmentioned in the press.

By starving our children of men, we have made them more vulnerable to the very abuse we are trying to prevent.

Still round the corner there may wait A new road or a secret gate.

By acquiring Biovex, we're continuing the transformation of Amgen into a company that supports therapeutic oncology as well as supportive care oncology.

You cant explain the unknown in terms of the incomprehensible.

Poetry is so vital to us until school spoils it.

I think I'm better at live shows than I used to be because I'm way more comfortable with the uncomfortable pauses between songs. Now, rather than trying to talk or do a costume change, I'll use those moments for myself. I listen to what other people are playing, or just rest, or dance, even though I don't know how to.

Gen. Banks has issued an order for the instruction of Negro children. Schoolhouses are to be built or rented and Teachers hired for this purpose, and the farmers and planters are to pay the Taxes in support of this.

I have spent a lot of time in the art world, and I guess I do listen to how people speak. I'm interested in what they say and how they say it.

When you boil down the real facts and statistics of what carbon dioxide is doing to this planet... to not feel like you have to do something... I don't think you're human.