The theatre is not the place for the musician. When the curtain is up the music interrupts the actor, and when it is down the music interrupts the audience.

Of all the arts I think Music has the most mighty, universal, and immediate effect.

I am terrified at the thought that so much hideous and bad music will be put on records forever.

Tax reform has been used as a crutch, as a smokescreen and as candy coating for the hard choices that have to be made.

A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship

That which is called humanism, but what would be more correctly called irreligious anthropocentrism, cannot yield answers to the most essential questions of our life

To be normal is the ultimate aim of the unsuccessful.

I sold flowers. I didn't sell myself. Now you've made a lady of me I'm not fit to sell anything else.

If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. He has a heart capable of mirth, and naturally disposed to it.

The spiritual quality of earth: eternally pregnant and containing in its fertility the unwritten cipher of cosmic lore.

We dragged English guitar music out of the gutter.

The East is a montage. It is old and it is young, very green in summer, very white in winter, gregarious, withdrawn and at once both sophisticated and provincial.

For me the first great joy of traveling is simply the luxury of leaving all my beliefs and certainties at home, and seeing everything I thought I knew in a different light, and from a crooked angle.

Prayer does not influence God. Prayer surely does influence God. It does not influence His purpose. It does influence His action.