I've made solo records and that's all been a learning experience. I've just got better at singing and more comfortable with who I am and my voice.
. . . it is the work and not the reward that is precious.
A person who has spoiled his stomach will criticize his meal saying that the food is bad; the same thing happens with people who are not satisfied with their lives
Art lifts man from his personal life into the universal life.
You consider war to be inevitable? Very good. Let everyone who advocates war be enrolled in a special regiment of advance-guards, for the front of every storm, of every attack, to lead them all!
I don't allow myself to doubt myself even for a moment.
By words one transmits thoughts to another, by means of art, one transmits feelings.
You have to laugh at yourself. Otherwise you'll waste all that great material.
Reduce the complexity of life by eliminating the needless wants of life, and the labors of life reduce themselves.
I've never been in fashion. Not at all.
I have nothing but respect for you -- and not much of that.