Many people believe that composing 'Concerto for Orchestra' kept Bartok alive through his final years of a battle with leukemia.

It comes a time when the music stops and you become your own motivation.

You live by music, I live by quotes, a quote is music just without the melody.

Concentrate on what you do well, and do it better than anybody else.

A difficult time can be more readily endured if we retain the conviction that our existence holds a purpose a cause to pursue, a person to love, a goal to achieve.

We speak of waves in a storm as "sea horses." Like wild horses, impetuous and irresistible, a man can drown in them, but if he can ride them in a wellfounded ship (as a man rides a horse which carries him), they can support him on his voyages.