Everybody in Canada seemed to listen to what they enjoyed, and nobody could tell them what to like, or what was the popular, or what was the In thing. Even today, it is very hard to brainwash a Canadian.

A musical profit outweighs a financial loss.

Sing sweet, but put a little dirt in it.

There are two kinds of worries - those you can do something about and those you can't. Don't spend any time on the latter.

I began by tinkering around with some old tunes I knew. Then, just to try something different, I set to putting some music to the rhythm that I used in jerking ice-cream sodas at the Poodle Dog. I fooled around with the tune more and more until at last, lo and behold, I had completed my first piece of finished music.

Simplicity is a most complex form

You've got to find a way of saying it without saying it.