Awards Are Merely The Badges Of Mediocrity.

One Thing I Am Certain Of Is That, If I Have Done Anything Good In Music, It Was, First, Because Of My Father, And Second, Because Of My Wife

The Word 'beauty' Is As Easy To Use As The Word 'degenerate.' Both Come In Handy When One Does Or Does Not Agree With You

A Song Has A Few Rights The Same As Ordinary Citizens... If It Happens To Feel Like Flying Where Humans Cannot Fly... To Scale Mountains That Are Not There, Who Shall Stop It?

Every Great Inspiration Is But An Experiment.

All Melodious Poets Shall Be Hoarse As Street Ballads, When Once The Penetrating Keynote Of Nature And Spirit Is Sounded-the Earth-beat, Sea-beat, Heart-beat, Which Make The Tune To Which The Sun Rolls, And The Globule Of Blood And The Sap Of The Trees.