If you're not failing, you're not trying hard enough.

Music is my faith, the stage is my church.

I've always been attracted to the lyric poem because of what it omits.

The artist, like the God of the creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails.

The night is a great silence, but the stars are its music.