"America does not need gorgeous halls and concert rooms for its musical development, but music schools with competent teachers, and many, very many, free scholarships for talented young disciples who are unable to pay the expense of study."

“Other countries have access to the markets, whereas Greece does not. Therefore, we have to get liquidity through the ECB.”

Source : "Everybody Knows We Are Serious". Interview with Lally Weymouth, www.slate.com. September 14, 2012.

“Protest is when I say this does not please me. Resistance is when I ensure what does not please me occurs no more.”

Source : "From Protest to Resistance" (p. 5), May 1968.

“To exercise at or near capacity is the best way I know of reaching a true introspective state. If you do it right, it can open all kinds of inner doors.”

“I didn't worry about my career ending, but there were days where I felt pretty beat up by it all and just pretty tired, because they didn't make it easy for me. And coming right off the last lawsuit, it was the last thing I wanted to get involved in. When it was over, we didn't really celebrate, we were just exhausted. I lost all interest in the record business and never wanted to do anything except hand in a record again.”

“Oh, a day in the city-square, there is no such pleasure in life!”

“No one respects a talent that is concealed.”

“Let a series of happy thoughts run through your mind. They will show on your face.”

“All the ills of democracy can be cured by more democracy.”

Source : Speech in Albany, 27 June 1933, in New York Times 28 June 1933