You should only listen to yourself. That’s your only job, really, as an artist. Even if you’re completely wrong, that’s what an artist does, listen to one’s self.[to Hailey]
Anecdotal evidence and my personal scientific research suggest there’s a direct correlation between what a man does for a living and the way he f***s.
You want to talk about the blood, well, my heart, it has been bleeding for a while. And I think your voice is the only thing that can save it.[to Alessandra]
You always have to keep your instruments very close.
With closeness and familiarity, there comes disrespect.
We are notes in this beautiful concert of existence. If we don’t play ourselves, nobody will.
The music is not in the notes but in the silence between them.
The highest cliff you can fall from is trust.
Hailey, oboists are a rare commodity these days. Strings, on the other hand, we’re like hyenas fighting over the same dead animal.
Do not do something so bold and then back away from it.[to Hailey]
You don’t want to be loved. You want to be respected.[to Rodrigo]
You can come up with many reasons why not to do something. But the real reason why to do something important, there’s only one reason.