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

A good song reminds us what we're fighting for.

We have more freedom of the press than any other country in a similar position. Even way back in the frightened '50s, Communists, for example, could publish their magazine. The KKK published their own books. But face it, the mass media is controlled by money.

RULERS should be careful about what songs are allowed to be sung.

Songwriters can’t explain. You get an idea and you don’t know where it’s come from. And if you’re lucky, you have a pencil or pen and can write it down.

Shh. Listen to the sounds that surround you. Notice the pitches, the volume, the timbre, the many lines of counterpoint. As light taught Monet to paint, the earth may be teaching you music.

I was never enthusiastic about being somebody who was supposed to be silent about being a member of something.