To the average mind popular music would mean compositions vulgarly conceived and commonplace in their treatment. That is absolutely false.

Dance as though no one is watching. Love as though you've never been hurt. Sing as though no one can hear you. Live as though heaven is on earth.

I forsee a marked deterioration in American musicand a host of other injuries to music in its artistic manifestations, by virtue—or rather by vice—of the multiplication of the various music-reproducing machines

My success is not due to any personal superiority over other people.

Anybody can write music of a sort. But touching the public heart is quite another thing.

America can well expect to develop a goodly amount of composers for she has a goodly number of people.

Jazz will endure just as long people hear it through their feet instead of their brains.