In music the present is extended.

To start writing about your life is, from one standpoint, to stop living it. You must avoid adventures today so as to make time for registering those of yesterday.

Arguably, no artist grows up: If he sheds the perceptions of childhood, he ceases being an artist.

To see itself through, music must have idea or magic. ... Music with neither dies young though rich.

Quarrels in France strengthen a love affair, in America they end it.

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

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