Sincere composers believe in God.

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.

Not to experience the reality why you are created is not to know God

He smiles, and he's made of trouble. We should have dropped him in the Thames in a bag of stones. We should have left him out for the fairies.

Love makes everything complicated.

I know, by the Lord's grace, I am a small part in the cosmic play.

What motivates me is the desire to bring up a whole new generation of active citizens who believe in peace and social justice and will work for it.

There are no people who are quite so vulgar as the over-refined.

I'm obsessed with food!

I saw in the Nineties that we were increasing police power with get tough policies and 3 strikes laws, but without additional oversights.

Beauty attracts beauty. If you want to know what you are, look at what you are drawn to.