"An intellectual is someone who can listen to the "William Tell Overture" without thinking of the Lone Ranger."

"Music is an outburst of the soul."

"When I speak of the gifted listener, I am thinking of the nonmusician primarily, of the listener who intends to retain his amateur status. It is the thought of just such a listener that excites the composer in me."

"You are the music while the music lasts."

"You can never get silence anywhere nowadays, have you noticed?"

"Secretly, I wanted to look like Jimi Hendrix, but I could never quite pull it off."

"A jazz musician is a juggler who uses harmonies instead of oranges."

"Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent."

"Without music, life would be a mistake."

"If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music."