The most difficult instrument to play in the orchestra is second fiddle.

This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before.

What [Louis Armstrong] does is real, and true, and honest, and simple, and even noble. Every time this man puts his trumpet to his lips, even if only to practice three notes, he does it with his whole soul.

The 20th century has been a badly written drama, from the beginning.

The second fiddle. I can get plenty of first violinists, but to find someone who can play the second fiddle with enthusiasm

From New Year's on the outlook brightens; good humor lost in a mood of failure returns. I resolve to stop complaining.

Wine snobbery, of course, is part showmanship, part sophistication, part knowledge, and part bluff