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

A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, and a bright, infinite future.

Elvis is the greatest cultural force in the twentieth century. He introduced the beat to everything, music, language, clothes, it's a whole new social revolution - the 60's comes from it.

Music, of all the arts, stands in a special region, unlit by any star but its own, and utterly without meaning ... except its own.

It is hard to think of another composer who so perfectly marries form and passion.

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