Terrible errors are rarely made all at once. Usually they are performed one small misstep at a time.
Some years ago I gave a concert in the mountains with snow all around, and that was much colder.
I have had the good fortune of being able to sing with many of the finest voices in the world, and for someone who loves voices as I do, this is an enormous privilege.
The world is full of many beautiful voices; I will perform with many of them. I love women's voices.
Naturally, women are drawn to a man who understands the subtlety of emotions, and they know I'm a passionate man. But the reason I try to keep myself in shape is so I can sing better, not to look good.
Destiny has a lot to do with it, but so do you. You have to persevere, you have to insist.
The feeling of an evolution is a constant for every artist who is pursuing the search of refinement and enlargement of hisher own means of expression.
The advantage, the luxury, as well as the torment and responsibility of the novelist, is that there is no limit to what he may attempt as an executant - no limit to his possible experiments, efforts, discoveries, successes.
Reviewing books is all about coziness. It is all of it a kind of caucus race. Women review women, Jewish writers review and praise Jewish writers, blacks review blacks, etc.
All philosophy is a form of confession.
Buttercup's mother hesitated, then put her stew spoon down. (This was after stew, but so is everything. When the first man first clambered from the slime and made his first home on land, what he had for supper that first night was stew. )