"But you can wake a man only..." - Quote by Mahatma Gandhi

“The art of producing good music from a cultivated voice can be achieved by many, but the art of producing that music from the harmony of a pure life is achieved very rarely.”

“Music has given me peace. I can remember occasions when music instantly tranquillized mymind, when I was greatly agitated over something. Music has helped me to overcome anger.”

“Truth resides in every human heart, and one has to search for it there, and to be guided by truth as one sees it. But no one has a right to coerce others to act according to his own view of truth.”

“Some poems are for holidays only. They are polished and sweet, but it is the sweetness of sugar, and not such as toil gives to sour bread. The breath with which the poet utters his verse must be that by which he lives.”

“There's no shame in failing. The only shame is not giving things your best shot.”

“It's easier to get rich than it is to explain not getting rich.”

“Musical innovation is full of danger to the State, for when modes of music change, the laws of the State always change with them.”

“The sun was warm but the wind was chill. You know how it is with an April day. When the sun is out and the wind is still, You're one month on in the middle of May. But if you so much as dare to speak, a cloud come over the sunlit arch, And wind comes off a frozen peak, And you're two months back in the middle of March.”

“So coming back from a journey, or after an illness, before habits had spun themselves across the surface, one felt that same unreality, which was so startling; felt something emerge. Life was most vivid then.”