“I've never known a musician who regretted being one. Whatever deceptions life may have in store for you, music itself is not going to let you down.”

“I look at you and I write down what I hear.”

“I said to my friends that if I was going to starve, I might as well starve where the food is good.”

“Try a thing you haven't done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time to figure out whether you like it or not.”

“I don't care what other critics say, I only hope to be played.”

“I got myself into a lovely little—shall we say controversy—with André Breton, by pointing out that the discipline of spontaneity, which he was asking his surrealist neophytes to adopt, was new for ...”

“When the mind wants to hope it refuses to listen.”

“Sweet are the thoughts that savour of content, The quiet mind is richer than a crown...”

“It turns out that the men who ultimately, who unpretentiously value peace are willing to sacrifice their own peace of mind in order to render it. The question is, 'Who, between opposing forces, wou...”

“World is not like what you see”

“What you see is what suffices you”

“...when they look at me, I so badly want to be who they see.”

“Some increase happens within us and are not seen by the outside world”

“So... today the magic happens from 16 in 17 years old.”

“He's looking at me intensely now like he can read my mind. Which of course, he can. Maybe I'm an open book, or maybe love is like a magnifying glass straight into the souls of those who own your he...”