A painting is music you can see and music is a painting you can hear.

Do not fear mistakes. There are none.

Don't play what's there, play what's not there.

Music is the framework around the silence.

Don't worry about playing a lot of notes. Just find one pretty one.

If you hit a wrong note, it's the next note that you play that determines if it's good or bad.

Knowledge is freedom and ignorance is slavery

First you imitate, then you innovate.

It takes a long time to sound like yourself.

In music, silence is more important than sound.

The path to my fixed purpose is laid with iron rails whereon my soul is grooved to run

Many sensible things banished from high life find an asylum among the mob.

We die, because we live.

We cannot live for ourselves alone.

A ship is a bit of terra firma cut off from the main; it is a state in itself; and the captain is its king.

If you begin the day with a laugh, you may, nevertheless, end it with a sob and a sigh.

As for me, I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.

Man is a money-making animal, which propensity too often interferes with his benevolence.

There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself.