"I have my own particular sorrows, loves, delights; and you have yours. But sorrow, gladness, yearning, hope, love, belong to all of us, in all times and in all places. Music is the only means whereby we feel these emotions in their universality."

"Music is the shorthand of emotion."

"Country music is three chords and the truth."

"Country music is three chords and the truth."

"Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune."

"I don't believe in having bands for solo records."

"Music is love in search of a word."

"Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting."

"In music the passions enjoy themselves."

"If anyone has conducted a Beethoven performance, and then doesn't have to go to an osteopath, then there's something wrong."