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。

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。

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。

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 will tell you King's First Law of Recognition: You never get it when you want it, and then when it comes, you get too much.

I think the 24-hour news cycle has helped exaggerate the differences between the parties. You can always find someone on TV somewhere carping about something. That didn't happen 20 years ago.

When what you want doesn't happen, learn to want what does.

Many times, the Senate talks of things and never gets anything through.

When I came up, guys like Nicholson and DeNiro were held in highest regard.

The media here is the opposition party. They don't understand this country. They still do not understand why Donald Trump is the president of the United States.

In darkness one may be ashamed of what one does without the shame of disgrace

A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart.

I'm a very strong believer in listening and learning from others.

My dream scenario would be that you could go into a bookshop, examine copies of every book in print that they're able to offer, then for a fee have them produce in a minute or two a beautiful finished copy in a dust jacket that you would pay for and take home.

I don't think my parents would have let me go straight into acting full time when I was 12. I do like to have balance, naturally, as an individual.

Cats are the runes of beauty, invincibility, wonder, pride, freedom, coldness, self-sufficiency, and dainty individuality - the qualities of sensitive, enlightened, mentally developed, pagan, cynical, poetic, philosophic, dispassionate, reserved, independent, Nietzschean, unbroken, civilised, master-class men.

T-shirts for ten dollars are even more fashion today than expensive fashion.

In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.

Radio was my life growing up. Then, I started in our family band with my uncle, my father, my aunt and my little brother. We would go to The Chicken Box and all the bars and play.

I was involved in the robbery for a purpose, and that was because I knew somebody who could drive a diesel train. I was responsible to take along this old guy who could drive the train.

The only force that can overcome an idea and a faith is another and better idea and faith, positively and fearlessly upheld.

In terms of asking questions, I plead guilty. I ask a hell of a lot of questions. That's my job.

I have no friends and I never leave my house.

I think for something like law or medicine you really have to love it and I didn't love it.

Being betrayed is one of the most valuable lessons life can teach.

It’s hard to be humble when you are as great as I am.

The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself.

Washington does not tax too little: it spends way too much.