God put Santa Claus on earth to remind us that Christmas is 'sposed to be a happy time.

A wonderful gift may not be wrapped as you expect.

Life without discipline is just like a body without a backbone.

If we were all determined to play the first violin we should never have an ensemble. therefore, respect every musician in his proper place.

All my life I have been reading romance novels. Those stupid books ruined me. I've always wanted that fire that every book I ever read talks about.

I'm like an elephant, ok? If I walk into a room, it's like, OK, he's in there.

All great innovations are built on rejections.

For forty years I have play the oboe, and still I never know what is coming out. It is a perpetual anxiety. But maybe this is good-I have never the time to get myself bored.

when I spoke of having a drink, it was a euphemism for having a whole flock of them.

I have a great interest in a number of things, perhaps too many. I admire people who seem to concentrate on only one fixed discipline to the exclusion of almost everything else.