The work of art is to dominate the spectator: the spectator is not to dominate the work of art.
Mozart is the musical Christ.
Music is an incomparably more powerful means and is a subtler language for expressing the thousand different moments of the soul's moods.
…You see, my dear friend, I am made up of contradictions, and I have reached a very mature age without resting upon anything positive, without having calmed my restless spirit either by religion or philosophy. Undoubtedly I should have gone mad but for music. Music is indeed the most beautiful of all Heaven's gifts to humanity wandering in the darkness. Alone it calms, enlightens, and stills our souls. It is not the straw to which the drowning man clings; but a true friend, refuge, and comforter, for whose sake life is worth living
Where the heart does not enter; there can be no music.
To regret the past, to hope in the future, and never to be satisfied with the present: that is what I spend my whole life doing
Truly there would be reason to go mad were it not for music.
If everyone there just lived their lives and let others do the same, God would be in every moment, in every grain of mustard, in the fragment of cloud that is there and then gone the following moment. God was there and yet people believed they still had to go on looking, because it seemed too simple to accept that life was an act of faith.
First time I met Jack [Nicholas ] I had heard about his golf and prowess - I was playing in the Ohio amateur.
Marvelous are the innocent.
I want to make a movie that has enough impact that it's going to do what it needs to do. But I don't want to make a film that serial killers masturbate to.