音樂教育除了非常注重道德和社會目的外，必須把美的東西作為自己的目的來探求，把人教育成美和善的。

靈感全然不是漂亮地揮著手，而是如健牛般竭盡全力工作的心理狀態。

音樂是比一切智慧、一切哲學更高的啟示，誰能滲透我音樂的意義，便能超脫尋常人無以自拔的苦難。

生活的苦難壓不垮我。我心中的歡樂不是我自己的，我把歡樂注進音樂，為的是讓全世界感到歡樂。

最好的音樂是這種音樂，它能夠使最優秀、最有教養的人快樂，特別是使那個在品德和修養上最為卓越的一個人快樂。

音樂是心靈的迸發。它不象化學那樣能進行實驗分析。對偉大的音樂來說只有一種真正的特性，那就是感情。

人們時常埋怨音樂是這樣的模糊，聽音樂時，簡直不知如何去想才好。但每個人對文學總是能夠理解的。不過，對我來說……一首我喜愛的樂曲所傳達給我的思想和意義是不能用語言表達的。這不是因為音樂不夠具體，而是因為它太具體了。因此，我發現：每當我試圖用文字或語言來說明一段音樂時，好象是說過了，但又好象說的都不令人滿意。

音樂是一種語言，它能確切地反映個人和人民的精神品質。

在真正的音樂中，充滿了一千種心靈的感受，比言詞更好得多。

藝術的真正意義在於使人幸福，使人得到鼓舞和力量。

音樂是比一切智慧、一切哲學更高的啟示。

人都需要娛樂和變換興趣，以防止變得遲鈍、呆滯和智力上的閉塞。

音樂只對安寧的心境具有魅力

音樂，是人生最大的快樂；音樂，是生活中的一股清流；首先，是陶冶性情的熔爐。

音樂表達的是無法用語言描述，卻又不可能對其保持沉默的東西。

音樂不只是表達的藝術，它還是能引起激動的藝術。

音樂歌頌人們的生活，引導人們走向光明的未來。

音樂家必須不斷地反身自省，培養自己最內在的東西，以便使它轉向外界。

音樂家的藝術不在於直接描繪形象，而在於把心靈置於這些物件能夠在心靈裡創造的情緒中去。

音樂教育並不是音樂家的教育，而首先是人的教育。

音樂教育——不是培養音樂家，首先是培養人。

音樂是不假任何外力，直接沁人心脾的最純的感情的火焰；它是從口吸入的空氣，它是生命的血管中流通著的血液。

I love France. It's got the sun down at the bottom, the Alps for skiing, and all that wine and food.

To be a good citizen its important to be able to put yourself in other peoples shoes and see the big picture. If everything you see is rooted in your own identity that becomes difficult or impossible.

I'm fortunate to have success, but it was a long and challenging road, so I try to make that not be the case for other women.

What's so seductive about the efficient markets hypothesis is that it applies nine years out of ten. A lot of the time it works. But when it stops working, you blow up.

My priorities are to continue to fight for manufacturing in my state and for jobs and health care and deal with lead issues in my beloved city of Cleveland, where I live, and every other city in the industrial Midwest.

It’s not about money or connections. It’s the willingness to outwork and outlearn everyone when it comes to your business.

To me it's the best trophy you can win and to bring it back for all them fans that have supported us right through would be something special.

The kinds of stories I want to be a part of telling are about delving into what it is to be a human being.

I was a nerd growing up, and I'm a little antisocial and awkward.

Television's very dependent on images. That's not what news is.

I'm very fond of piano players.

Maybe I'll paint, do photography, just something else. I can see that.

Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what happened

Nobody should have to choose between a cold heart and a dead heart.

Losing my anonymity in this world I think is something that I find terrifying.

Idealism without realism is impotent. Realism without idealism is immoral.

The real Jack Johnson was both more and less than those who loved or those who hated him ever knew. He embodied American individualism in its purest form; nothing - no law or custom, no person white or black, male or female - could keep him for long from whatever he wanted.

Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.

Saudi Arabia has allowed training on its soil of American forces.

There are certain things I couldn't write because they're not intrinsic to my beliefs. For instance, I couldn't write a hero or heroine who didn't put children first.

Life started getting good when I started making money.

What really raises one's indignation against suffering is not suffering intrinsically, but the senselessness of suffering.

Raising children is, in a sense, the reason the society exists in the first place. It's the most important thing that happens, and it's the culmination of all the tools and language and social structure that has evolved.

Mental effort, I would argue, is relatively rare. Most of the time we coast.