"Those who inflict must suffer, for they see The work of their own hearts, and this must be Our chastisement or recompense."

“I believe in using the entire piano as a single instrument capable of expressing every possible musical idea.”

“Would that be dangerous, to not look while being looked at?”

“I'm a pitchman, my business comes from the pitch, nothing else.”

Source : Interview with Lloyd Grove, www.entrepreneur.com. October 13, 2008.

“Just because we are wearing lipstick doesn't mean we can't kick your ass!”

“Most people have some appreciation of mathematics, just as most people can enjoy a pleasant tune; and there are probably more people really interested in mathematics than in music. Appearances suggest the contrary, but there are easy explanations. Music can be used to stimulate mass emotion, while mathematics cannot; and musical incapacity is recognized (no doubt rightly) as mildly discreditable, whereas most people are so frightened of the name of mathematics that they are ready, quite unaffectedly, to exaggerate their own mathematical stupidity”

“I give dating advice on a regular basis. It's not that I'm any expert, but it's always nice to share that with your friends.”

“It is possible that, through horizontal and vertical lines constructed with awareness, but not with calculation, led by high intuition, and brought to harmony and rhythm, these basic forms of beauty, supplemented if necessary by other direct lines or curves, can become a work of art, as strong as it is true.”

“A young trooper should have an old horse.”

Source : Henry George Bohn, John Ray (1860). “A Hand-book of Proverbs: Comprising an Entire Republication of Ray's Collection of English Proverbs, with His Additions from Foreign Languages : and an Alphabetical Index, in which are Introduced Large Additions, as Well of Proverbs as of Sayings, Sentences, Maxims, and Phrases”, p.304