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

An Apparent Confusion, If Lived With Long Enough, May Become Orderly . . . A Rare Experience Of A Moment At Daybreak, When Something In Nature Seems To Reveal All Consciousness, Cannot Be Explained At Noon. Yet It Is Part Of The Day's Unity

It Is More Important To Keep The Horse Going Hard Than To Always Play The Exact Notes.

Most Of The Forward Movements Of Life In General ... Have Been The Work Of Essentially Religiously-minded People.

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?