You can't drive a Spike with a Tack Hammer

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.

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

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.

It's me being me making you be you...

I say there is no darkness but ignorance, " said William Shakespeare. How would he know, he knew everything?

There is irreducible chance in the universe.

The future of mobile is the future of online. It is how people access online content now.

I sent my daughter 40 roses last November because I thought she was 40. And she laughed her head off. She is not going to be 40 until this year!

Several hours or several years make no difference once you have lost eternity.

Many fiction writers who put the science in dont get it right.

Guys have guy/girl relationships so that they can have their own guy thing plus the sensitive thing with the girl.

Money does not represent such a value as men have placed upon it. All my money has been invested into experiments with which I have made new discoveries enabling mankind to have a little easier life.

I believe that if we want our children to understand the world beyond their classroom, we must bring the world into their classroom.