I move in the university of the waves.
Nothing is better than music; when it takes us out of time, it has done more for us than we have the right to hope for.
I've been a woman for a little over 50 years and have gotten over my initial astonishment. As for conducting an orchestra, that's a job where I don't think sex plays much part.
To study music, we must learn the rules. To create music, we must break them.
Nothing is better than music; when it takes us out of time, it has done more for us than we have the right to hope for: it has broadened the limits of our sorrowful life, it has lit up the sweetness of our hours of happiness by effacing the pettinesses that diminish us, bringing us back pure and new to what was, what will be, what music has created for us.
The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.
It is so much easier to rest contented with what we have already acquired than to change ever so slightly those routine but profound habits of thought and feeling which govern our life, and by which we live so blissfully. This mental inertia is, perhaps, our greatest enemy. Insidiously it leads us to assume that we can renew our lives without renewing our habits.
I get scared of a lot of attention. I get scared of the spotlight. And I'm not talking about on the basketball court.
Puppies are constantly inventing new ways to be bad. It's fascinating. You come into a room they've been in and see pieces of debris and try to figure out what you had that was made from wicker or what had been stuffed with fluff.
I have known many meat eaters to be far more nonviolent than vegetarians.
When you live in New York, one of two things happen - you either become a New Yorker, or you feel more like the place you came from.