You should never be ashamed to admit you have been wrong. It only proves you are wiser today than yesterday
When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.
We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Vision is the Art of seeing Things invisible.
Children must receive music instruction as naturally as food, with as much pleasure as they derive from a ball game, and this must happen from the beginning of their lives.
I've been all over the world and I've never seen a statue of a critic.
The gift of imagination is by no means an exclusive property of the artist; it is a gift we all share; to some degree or other all of us, all of you, are endowed with the powers of fantasy.
This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before.
Stillness is our most intense mode of action. It is in our moments of deep quiet that is born every idea, emotion, and drive which we eventually honor with the name of action. We reach highest in meditation, and farthest in prayer. In stillness every human being is great.
It is the artists of the world, the feelers and the thinkers who will ultimately save us; who can articulate, educate, defy, insist, sing and shout the big dreams.
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