„Ich brauche Musik. Es ist sozusagen der Schlag meines Herzens. Es hält mich aktiv, egal was passiert: schlechte Spiele, Presse, was auch immer.“

"Chagall, le Patron", Charles Sorlier, Paris 1989; "Chagall, die Lithografien", ed. Ulrike Gauss, Verlag Gerd Hatje, Stuttgart 1998, S. 50

Quelle: Aphorismen, Minden 1976, S. 7

Du bist ein Wilder, in: DER SPIEGEL 19/1951 (19. Mai 1951), S. 40, spiegel.de http://www.spiegel.de/spiegel/print/d-29193896.html
Original engl.: "I am no genius. I have created nothing. I play the music of other men. I am just a musician." - Hyman Howard Taubman: The Maestro. The Life of Arturo Toscanini, Simon & Schuster, New York 1951, S. 145 books.google https://books.google.de/books?id=M28qAAAAMAAJ&q=%22i+am+no+genius%22

Armin Wertz: Meister der geheimen Kriege, 22. März 2017 heise.de https://www.heise.de/tp/features/Meister-der-geheimen-Kriege-3650452.html.
"And still on the subject of books: Our daily sources of news, papers and TV, are now so craven, so unvigilant on behalf of the American people, so uninformative, that only in books can we find out what is really going on. I will cite an example: House of Bush, House of Saud by Craig Unger, published near the start of this humiliating, shameful blood-soaked year." - „I Love You, Madame Librarian“. 6. August 2004 inthesetimes.com http://inthesetimes.com/article/903/i_love_you_madame_librarian

zitiert im Nachruf der Hamburger Morgenpost 2. Juli 1997 mopo.de https://www.mopo.de/-lungenkrebs---robert-mitchum-starb-mit-79--im-schlaf---hollywoods-letztes-rauhbein-ist-tot--18806936
Original englisch: "I think when producers have a part that's hard to cast, they say, 'Send for Mitchum; he'll do anything.' I don't care what I play; I'll play Polish gays, women, midgets, anything." - The New York Times Nachruf 2. Juli 1997 http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E05E0DC1430F931A35754C0A961958260&pagewanted=all