You always have to lie. I've been in plays that people don't enjoy and I pray that they lie to my face when I come outside.
There is no fruit which is not bitter before it is ripe.
The circumstances of others seem good to us, while ours seem good to others.
It is folly to fear what cannot be avoided.
Ready tears are a sign of treachery, not of grief
Gain at the expense of reputation is manifest loss.
Practice is the best of all instructors.
We know that it's hard enough being a teenager. It's particularly hard being a teenager who's coming out.
As Bartok put it so succinctly: "Competitions are for horses. " Nothing could be more barbaric that the practice or ranking artists as though they were divers or figure skaters. . . . What one suspects is that the appetite for dividing the world into winners and losers, anointed and anonymous, is so compulsive that it feeds with special, vindictive hunger on the most elusive and ephemeral of subjects. For if music can be reduced to games of power and success, then innocence-love without profit-can be dealt a crushing blow.
The riches of heaven, the honor which cometh from God only, and the pleasures at His right hand, the absence of all evil, the presence and enjoyment of all good, and this good enduring to eternity, never more to be taken from us, never more to be in any, the least degree, diminished, but forever increasing, these are the wreaths which form the contexture of that crown held forth to our hopes.
Pop music is created by repression - and then the system takes it and makes even more money with it!