Sometimes you find an old tune so good you can use it several times for different purposes.

The danger with the internet is that you don't need to think about music, you just search for it and you find the answer. Singing used to be part of everyday life. Women sang while pounding corn. Men sang while paddling canoes.

I'd really rather put songs on people's lips than in their ears.

I like to say I'm more conservative than Goldwater. He just wanted to turn the clock back to when there was no income tax.

My mother wanted me to learn how to read music. She'd given fiddles to my two older brothers, but they'd rebelled. I came along and my father said, "Oh, let Peter enjoy himself." What she did was leave musical instruments all around the house. Whistles, marimbas, squeeze boxes, a piano and organ. By age six or seven, I could bang out a simple tune on almost anything. I developed a good ear, so I didn't learn to read music until I taught myself at age eighteen, 'cause I was hearing so many good songs I couldn't possibly remember them all.

Being generous of spirit is a wonderful way to live.

But if two and two and fifty make a million...