It has to be able to play at the maximum expression and communication in every style, and the only way you can do that is - like Verdi said - working with a file, every day, little by little, until the orchestra's collective qualities emerge.

I just want to be healthy and stay alive and keep my family going and everything and keep my friends going and try to do something so that this world will be peaceful. That is the most ambitious and the most difficult thing, but I'm there trying to do it.

Yoko Ono

Art and works of art do not make an artist sense and enthusiasm and instinct do.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

For decades, parents were told by so-called parenting 'experts' that offspring would be best raised on the belief each is special and entitled to all life has to offer.

Bob Barr

Love fades. Mine has.

Richelle Mead

Crime in full glory consolidates authority by the sacred fear it inspires.

Emile M. Cioran

The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary.

Thomas Alva Edison

Only the minute and the future are interesting in fashion -- it exists to be destroyed. If everybody did everything with respect, you'd go nowhere.

Karl Lagerfeld

Be patient. The path of self-discipline that leads to God-realization is not an easy path: obstacles and sufferings are on the path; the latter you must bear, and the former overcome -- all by His help. His help comes only through concentration. Repetition of God's name helps concentration.

Swami Ramdas

There is no reason for beauty. It just is.

Erin Kellison

I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it.

Audrey Hepburn

Bad excuses are worse than none.

Thomas Fuller

It's just like any relationship, the more contained the environment, the more the good stuff appears and the more the bad stuff will reveal itself.

Bruce Greenwood