I just want to be able to play as fast as my brain goes, and my brain doesn't go all that fast..

I'm short, I'm Jewish and I'm a liberal.

Drumming is like film directing. You build a framework for everyone to create something together..

Thought is the thought of thought..

Meaning, not beauty, is what we are after..

It's the circle of life, and it moves us all, through despair and hope, through faith and love, 'till we find our place, on the path unwinding..

Everybody isn't everybody..

[At a musical concert:] . . . the music's pure algebra of enchantment..

You have to invent life..

You spend your life getting walked on, you learn to recognize the tread..

He has carried every point, who has combined that which is useful with that which is agreeable..

May not music be described as the mathematics of the sense, mathematics as music of the reason? The musician feels mathematics, the mathematician thi….

Time did not compose her..

You can't go wrong with love..

Not being happy really is my fear..

Everybody sings from their diaphragm..

Music acts like a magic key, to which the most tightly closed heart opens..

I don't take myself too seriously..

An organist who has the sensitivity to quietly play prelude music from the hymnbook tempers our feelings and causes us to go over in our minds the ly….

You must learn to see, what you are looking at.

One who can control his thoughts has conquered himself..