Much of the blame is the malarkey that artists have created to glorify war, which as we all know, is nonsense, and a good deal worse than that — romantic pictures of battle, and of the dead and men in uniform and all that. And I did not want to have that story told again.

No matter how corrupt, greedy, and heartless our government, our corporations, our media, and our religious & charitable institutions may become, the music will still be wonderful.

It goes against the American storytelling grain to have someone in a situation he can't get out of, but I think this is very usual in life.

Hate, in the long run, is about as nourishing as cyanide.

I urge you to please notice when you are happy.

Sons of suicides seldom do well.

After that demonstration everybody was thinking, what's going to happen to these wonderful men who have been so useful to us? We have to give people something to do with life.