Divine fires do not blaze each day but an artist functions in their afterglow, hoping for their recurrence.

Why, after all, must everyone like music? That they are missing something is just the lover's opinion.

All men are forced into one of two categories: those with eleven fingers and those without.

Perfection is no more a requisite to art than to heroes. Frigidaires are perfect. Beauty limps. My frigidaire has had to be replaced.

The hardest of all the arts to speak of is music, because music has no meaning to speak of

I don't go to concerts much. I've heard everything. When I do go to movies, I walk out half the time. As for literature, I've read everything.

Humor is the ability to see three sides to one coin.