Don't only practise your art, but force your way into its secrets..

..When I first heard Elvis' voice, I knew that I wasn't going to work for anybody ... hearing him for the first time was like busting out of jail.

It has been said that if the opening phrase of a classical minuet can be fitted to the words "Are you the O'Reilly who owns this hotel?" then it was ….

Music, when soft voices die Vibrates in the memory..

I think it is time we learned the lesson of our century: that the progress of the human spirit must keep pace with technological and scientific progr….

I can see me continuing to make the best music I can, and let the chips fall where they may..

My whole trick is to keep the tune well out in front. If I play Tchaikovsky, I play his melodies and skip his spiritual struggle..

PIANO, n. A parlor utensil for subduing the impenitent visitor. It is operated by depressing the keys of the machine and the spirits of the audience..

But I'm also a music lover, and I'll always try a lot of different things..

Do not allow the accents in the brass to produce space between the notes..

Here's the thing with me and the religious thing. This is the flat-out truth: I find the religiosity and philosophy in the music. I don't find it any….

All I try to do is write music that feels meaningful to me, that has commitment and passion behind it..

Do you think I give a damn about your and your pathetic violin?.

The world thinks that music is a commercial commodity. I'm glad that is not my code..

There is music in all things, if men had ears..

Man, there's no boundary line to art!.

ELECTED Silence, sing to me And beat upon my whorlèd ear, Pipe me to pastures still and be The music that I care to hear..

Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart..

Before I compose a piece, I walk round it several times, accompanied by myself..

to deny that music powerfully influences our thoughts and conduct is either ignorant or a deliberate lie. Anyone who listens to music has been moved ….

I don't dig that two-beat jive the New Orleans cats play. My boys and I have to have four heavy beats to the bar and no cheating..