What does music mean to you? What would you do without music?

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.

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.

Gray skies are just clouds passing over.

I don't need time, I need a deadline.

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

The artist must say it without saying it.