You can't drive a Spike with a Tack Hammer

A band is only as good as its euphonium section.

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 can almost always write music; at any hour of the twenty-four, if I put pencil to paper, music comes.

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

Grand opera is the most powerful of stage appeals and that almost entirely through the beauty of music.

There is one thing that freezes a musician more than the deadliest physical cold, and that is the spiritual chill of an unresponsive audience!