Johannes Brahms Quotes

What I have a problem with is money and name at the expense of talent and culture.

What does culture want? To make infinity comprehensible.

In a gallery, there's an expectation of high prices and a somewhat elitist atmosphere.

When you can listen to others' perspectives, we can learn about the other people that make up this great country.

I feel like a celebrity is someone who sits and takes pictures with people 'cause they love themselves and how they look and how people look at them. But I just want to be regular and respected for my artistry because music doesn't necessarily have a face.

I face no problem in communicating with the people of Orissa whom I meet everyday.

Never speak disrespectfully of Society, Algernon. Only people who can’t get into it do that.

Art is not democratic. It is not for the people.

I can't change the fact that my paintings don't sell. But the time will come when people will recognize that they are worth more than the value of the paints used in the picture.

Nothing is more painful to me than the disdain with which people treat second-rate authors, as if there were room only for the first-raters.

And what excites me most is the type of public, the fact that the Parisian people have a broader cultural understanding than many Americans do.

Mozart starved, but you allow Thalberg and Liszt make tons of gold: Of course, you may think that someone immortal cannot die of hunger

Those are terrible people who don't like Glenn Gould... I will have nothing to do with such people, they are dangerous people.

In times of change and uncertainty, we need the spirit of jazz more than ever before, to bring people - especially young women and men - together, to nurture freedom and dialogue, to create new bridges of respect and understanding, for greater tolerance and cooperation.

To a lot of people, my job is really fancy, so they're like, "Oh, whoah, you're a musician, wow!" Some people go to you, "Oh my god, you're a journalist!" And some people go, "What, you're a therapist? That's incredible!" So everyone, to a certain extent, has other people that you get impressed by, without even having a proper conversation or getting to know them. You're just like, "Oohhh, they're a bit fancy!"

I can only be the best version of myself and understand that the only way that we as a people can heal is to understand that the next person's journey may not be your own, but it doesn't mean that you have to marginalize them in any way.

Truth is what is true, and it's not necessarily factual. Truth and fact are not the same thing. Truth does not contradict or deny facts, but it goes through and beyond facts. This is something that it is very difficult for some people to understand. Truth can be dangerous.

Don't criticize what you can't understand.

An Albanian’s house is the dwelling of God and the guest.’ Of God and the guest, you see. So before it is the house of its master, it is the house of one’s guest. The guest, in an Albanian’s life, represents the supreme ethical category, more important than blood relations. One may pardon the man who spills the blood of one’s father or of one’s son, but never the blood of a guest.

That's where peace begins - not just in the plans of leaders, but in the hearts of people. Not just in some carefully designed process, but in the daily connections - that sense of empathy that takes place among those who live together in this land and in this sacred city of Jerusalem.

There are not too many people with an opinion I care for.

Going back and forth between wanting to be respected artistically and wanting to move people is its own challenge.

Before you hate something you should try to understand it.

Famous designers think nothing of putting their names on your clothing, but would have the servants set the dogs on you if you ever tried to put your name on their clothing.

We cannot tell some people what it is believe, partly because they are too stupid to understand, partly because we are too proudly vague to explain.