"You're a musician and you live and die by people responding to your music. It's a business just like anything else and if people don't like your music, that's kind of your problem."

“When we preach the love of God there is a danger of forgetting that the Bible reveals not first the love of God but the intense, blazing holiness of God, with His love at the center of that holiness.”

“Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which belie the idea that things cannot be changed.”

Source : Tom Clancy (1995). “Debt of Honor”, p.579, Penguin

“Her voice, high and clear, moved through the leaves, through the sunlight. It splashed onto the gravel, the grass. He imagined the notes falling into the air like stones into water, rippling the invisible surface of the world. Waves of sound, waves of light: his father had tried to pin everything down, but the world was fluid and could not be contained.”

“Being out there in the ocean, God's creation, it's like a gift He has given us to enjoy,”

“Give me the whole world to run and then I'll be happy. If tomorrow I was told I had to sort out the whole world's problems I'd sleep like a baby.”

“The ruin of a State is generally preceded by an universal degeneracy of manners and contempt of religion.”

Source : Jonathan Swift, Thomas Roscoe (1859). “The works of Jonathan Swift, D.D.: with copious notes and additions and a memoir of the author”, p.244

“Silence ought also to be the core of each concert. Remember the anagram: listen = silent.”

Source : "An A-Z of the piano: Alfred Brendel's notes from the concert hall" by Alfred Brendel, www.theguardian.com. August 31, 2013.

“I have walked majestically with kings and queens and presidents and other heads of states.”