“[W]ithout travelling one remains a poor creature; that goes especially for people in the arts and sciences! [Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart]”

“By the age of eleven it was . . . too late for the piano and the violin.”

“The horn . . . is the joint hardest instrument to learn. . . . (The other is the oboe).”

“If it weren't for greed, intolerance, hate, passion and murder, you would have no works of art, no great buildings, no medical science, no Mozart, no Van Gogh, no Muppets and no Louis Armstrong.”

“Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it.”

“Lesson one in time travel, Thursday. First of all, we are all time travellers. The vast majority of us manage only one day per day.”

“Old art offers just as good a criticism of new art as new art offers of old.”