In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Things are not only what they are. They are, in very important respects, what they seem to be.
Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.
Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster. Your life will never be the same again.
I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
Each body has its art...
I?m telling you, things are getting out of hand. Or maybe I?m discovering that things were never in my hands.