Life without music is meaningless, music without life is academic.

Music, because of its specific and far-reaching metaphorical powers, can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable.

To be a success as a Broadway composer, you must be Jewish or gay. I'm both.

Children must receive music instruction as naturally as food, with as much pleasure as they derive from a ball game, and this must happen from the beginning of their lives.

The joy of music should never be interrupted by a commercial.

Life without music is unthinkable. Life without music is academic. That is why my contact with music is a total embrace.

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