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?

But maybe music was not intended to satisfy the curious definiteness of man. Maybe it is better to hope that music may always be transcendental language in the most extravagant sense.

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

It is more important to keep the horse going hard than to always play the exact notes.

For the man of talent affects to call his transgressions of the laws of sense trivial and to count them nothing considerd with his devotion to his art.

The future of music may not lie entirely in music itself, but rather in the way it encourages and extends, rather than limits the aspirations and ideals of the people, in the way it makes itself a part with the finer things that humanity does and dreams of.

There can be nothing exclusive about substantial art. It comes directly out of the heart of the experience of life and thinking about life and living life.