When you are accompanied by the instrument - on an instrument like the lute-the lute and voice - you have this sound, and you feel how the music can be so touching and yet so simple.
Failure may be just a step toward your eventual goal.
Just because you made a mistake doesn't mean you are a mistake.
Fear of failure and fear of the unknown are always defeated by faith. Having faith in yourself, in the process of change, and in the new direction that change sets will reveal your own inner core of steel.
Nine times out of ten you take the first step in creating your own universe by picking up the phone.
A man who isn't generous with his money isn't generous with his love and affection.
The difference between a calculated risk and rolling the dice can be expressed in one word: homework.
I was watching Monster's Ball, which is a fabulous movie. It's just a little gem: beautifully shot, and shot in a way I never would have done. It made me feel very old, really, because it wasn't eccentric for its own sake, it was just very original.
I have arrived more definitely than any other painter during his lifetime; honours shower upon me from every side; artists pay me compliments on my work; there are many people to whom my position must seem enviable. . . But I don't seem to have a single real friend!
The real is what resists symbolization absolutely.
To hold a people in oppression you have to convince them first that they are supposed to be oppressed.