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

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.

Those heart-hammering nightmares that start to lose coherence even as you're waking up from them, but that still manage to leave their moldering fingerprints all across your day.

I am suspended in the moment. Flickering images faded with age, frozen thoughts hovering precariously in dead space, a whirlwind of memories that slice through my soul.

Spirituality and spiritual life give us the strength to love.

The real secret of power is consciousness of power.

Black tenants smell and attract vermin.

The most real of all splendors are not in outward things, they are within us.

And there's that one particular harbor Sheltered from the wind Where the children play on the shore each day And all are safe within...

I think this [Gnomeo & Juliet] is the closest I ought to get to Shakespeare to be honest.

Every woman is a queen, and we all have different things to offer.

Make no mistake, you would prefer to work for someone who is going to put their arm around you at times and lift you.