In music the present is extended.

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

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

Greatness is not the effect of which inspiration is the cause. We are all inspired, but we are all not great.

If you read reviews of concerts, the word 'creative' comes up all the time. However, performers playing music usually aren't creative. Critics might say they are, but they're just playing another persons work. They didn't create it.

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

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.