A correct execution of an adagio is the ne plus ultra of our art; and I look on it as the touch-stone of the dancer.
I have always found it difficult to study. I have learnt almost entirely what I have learnt by trying it out on the dog.
The art of music above all the other arts is the expression of the soul of a nation.
Music is the reaching out towards the utmost realities by means of ordered sound.
The attitude of foreign to English musicians is unsympathetic, self-opinionated and pedantic. They believe that their tradition is the only one (this is specially true of the Viennese) and that anything that is not in accordance with that tradition is "wrong" and arises from insular ignorance.
It never seems to occur to people that a man might just want to write a piece of music.
But in the next world I shan't be doing music, with all the striving and disappointments. I shall be being it.
I'm tired of all these hippie jack-offs
There's a fascinating statistic: One out of every four people in America has visited New York since 911. It is astounding. Now, I don't know how you count it; it's some people coming multiple times.
Artists are often the barometers of society.
I have learned not to overlook the advantages of being me. From when I was a softball player, and I held the stolen bases record. I would slide into second with my prostheses, and the girl on the base could either step aside or meet two wooden sticks.