To the average mind popular music would mean compositions vulgarly conceived and commonplace in their treatment. That is absolutely false.

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.

Some men spend their lives looking for ways to punish themselves for having been born.

There is always more goodness in the world than there appears to be, because goodness is of its very nature modest and retiring.

But shouldn't we also quit marketing murder as a game?

Our extremities are God's opportunities.

The richness I achieve comes from nature, the source of my inspiration.

The history of the past interests us only in so far as it illuminates the history of the present.

But where are the snows of last year? That was the greatest concern of Villon, the Parisian poet.

All of the things that have happened in my life have been self-propelled. I can't blame anybody else or point a finger at anybody.

[Making meth] is a complex process. The truth of it is that we live in a post-Google world where you can find six recipes for meth in 30 seconds on a search engine.

Be methodical if you would succeed in business, or in anything. Have a work for every moment, and mind the moment's work.