While looking for the light, you may suddenly be devoured by darkness and find the true light. --Jack Kerouac

I occasionally play works by contemporary composers, and for two reasons. Firest, to discourage the composer from writing any more, and secondly to remind myself how much I appreciate Beethoven. --Jascha Heifetz

My talent as an artist is to walk across a moor, or place a stone on the ground. --Richard Long

Whatever speech I hear, no matter who is speaking nor what he says, my mind is already working to find the musical equivalent for such speech. --Modest Mussorgsky

Of course, to start with, I love all my pupils. Then I find the talented ones. They are always the most arrogant. --Alexandra Danilova