“I will play the swan. And die in music.”
“Swans sing before they die— 't were no bad thing Should certain persons die before they sing.”
“The radio station was playing Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake, a sure sign that things were much worse than they appeared.”
“If I had the wings of a swan, over these stony hills I would fly. I would fly to the arms of my true love, and there I'd be happy to die.”
“I play the notes as they are written, but it is God who makes the music.”
“When the silence bores you, let the music play; when the music bores you, let the silence play!”