Music is edifying, for from time to time it sets the soul in operation.

I was shocked at college to see one hundred of my classmates in the library all reading copies of the same book. Instead of doing as they did, I went into the stacks and read the first book written by an author whose name began with Z. I received the highest grade in the class. That convinced me that the institution was not being run correctly. I left.

Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.

Look at everything. Don't close your eyes to the world around you. Look and become curious and interested in what there is to see.

Everything you do is music, and everywhere is the best seat.

There will always be critics eager to fashion opinions for the lazy and incapable.

Where does beauty begin? Where does it end? Where it ends is where the artist begins.