The purpose of music is to sober and quiet the mind, thus making it susceptible to divine influences.

"The best way to predict the future is to create it."

我鼓励你接受你可能现在看不到一条路，但这并不意味着它不存在。

——在遗嘱上签名，稍休后说几句话勉励各同志，1925年3月11日

The only thing I care about is the music and the performance. That's the only reason I'm here.

I'm not a businessman, I'm a business, man.

The most beautiful as well as the most ugly inclinations of man are not part of a fixed biologically given nature, but result from the social process which creates man.