“If you follow the classical pattern, you are understanding the routine, the tradition, the shadow – you are not understanding yourself.”

Don’t fear failure. Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.

Live a life worth remembering.

The function and duty of a quality human being is the sincere and honest development of one’s potential.

Out of chaos, find simplicity, From discord, find harmony.

Only the self-sufficient stand alone – most people follow the crowd and imitate.

A good fighter must sense rather than perceive his chance to strike.

Are you going to let the obstacles in your life be stumbling blocks or stepping stones? Choose the positive. You are the master of your attitude.

When you say that something is impossible, you have made it impossible.

Genius: The capacity to see and to express what is simple, simply!

A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.

Any technique, however worthy and desirable, becomes a disease when the mind is obsessed with it.

A good teacher protects his pupils from his own influence.

Knowing is not enough, You must apply.

Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.

Loneliness is only an opportunity to cut adrift and find yourself. In solitude you are least alone.

Be a practical dreamer backed by action.

I enjoy listening to classical music and heavy metal.

Classical cooking and molecular gastronomy should remain separate.

Certainly we do not need quantum mechanics for macroscopic objects, which are well described by classical physics.

And at the other end of the spectrum, a base in European classical music as well.

It is becoming increasingly difficult to decide where jazz starts or where it stops, where Tin Pan Alley begins and jazz ends, or even where the borderline lies between between classical music and jazz. I feel there is no boundary line

I would like my work to be recognized as being in the classical tradition (Coptic, Egyptian, Greek, Chinese), as representing the Ideal in the mind. Classical art cannot possibly be eclectic.

I don’t care if it’s classical, funk, salsa, reggae, calypso; it’s all dance music.

I’m a self-taught guitarist, but I have a classical music background.