“Dont only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets, for it and knowledge can raise men to the divine.”

“Music is ... A higher revelation than all Wisdom & Philosophy”

“Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.”

“Music is like a dream. One that I cannot hear.”

“Anyone who tells a lie has not a pure heart, and cannot make a good soup. ”

“I would rather write 10,000 notes than a single letter of the alphabet.”

“The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”

“The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.”

“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.”

“I have little use for religion as it is practiced, or for astrology, or for belief in witchcraft or omens of good or ill-luck. I think they all stem from some insufficiency in mens minds, perhaps f...”

“It is only the innocent mind which knows what love is, and the innocent mind can live in the world which is not innocent.”

“So if you can look at all things without allowing pleasure to creep in - at a face, a bird, the colour of a sari, the beauty of a sheet of water shimmering in the sun, or anything that gives deligh...”

“Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.”

“Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices.”