Anybody can write music of a sort. But touching the public heart is quite another thing.

The red and white and starry blue Is freedom's shield and hope.

I am happy now, to recall that I was not only his son but his companion, and whenever there was a hunting expedition or any other pleasure, I was always with him.

Dance as though no one is watching. Love as though you've never been hurt. Sing as though no one can hear you. Live as though heaven is on earth.

A band is only as good as its euphonium section.

I have always believed that 98% of a student's progress is due to his own efforts, and 2% to his teacher.

From childhood I was passionately fond of music and wanted to be a musician. I have no recollection of any real desire ever to be anything else.

Remember always that the composer's pen is still mightier than the bow of the violinist; in you lie all the possibilities of the creation of beauty.

There is one thing that freezes a musician more than the deadliest physical cold, and that is the spiritual chill of an unresponsive audience!

Jazz will endure just as long people hear it through their feet instead of their brains.

Any composer who is gloriously conscious that he is a composer must believe that he receives his inspiration from a source higher than himself.

Say all the bad things you can imagine so they won't happen.

Email is the scourge of our age, ' said Silvia. 'Email and cancer.

What is a political party but a conspiracy?

Reason should investigate its own parameters before declaring its omniscience.

She had never been a pretty crier. She sobbed the way she did everything else - with passion and excess.

This is a nasty, rotten business.

The red sun was pasted in the sky like a wafer.

The photograph is like a quotation, or a maxim or proverb. Each of us mentally stocks hundreds of photographs, subject to instant recall.

I recall the first time my agent told me to wear clothes specifically chosen for me, I would try and find excuses not to do it.

I don't know if I would call myself a religious human.