I will not change. Because if you are successful and you change, you are an idiot.
If an apprentice does not hear what a master hears, is then that quality not present in the music? Yes and no. In the world in which the apprentice lives no.
Quiet is the absence of sound. Silence is the presence of silence.
Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.
Usually people think that it is the musicians who create the music, but in fact it is music who creates the musicians.
In strange and uncertain times such as those we are living in, sometimes a reasonable person might despair. But hope is unreasonable and love is greater even than this. May we trust the inexpressible benevolence of the creative impulse.
If the audience doesn't hear what is going on, is it going on?
I have two ideas for novels at the moment, neither of them all that conventional, but I'm not ready to choose between them yet, let alone settle down to the process of writing.
I want people to be sincere; a man of honor shouldn't speak a single word that doesn't come straight from his heart.
Sometimes you're lying to protect people in a way.
Grumbling is the death of love