The most necessary, the most important, the principal, the most essential thing for a musician is this: to know what he wants, what he can do, and what he ought to do.

I like criticism. It makes you strong.

When the mind that is subtle goes out through the brain and the sense-organs, the gross names and forms appear; when it stays in the heart, the names and forms disappear.

"The story you don’t write is the one that haunts you."