They say. . . the stopwatch never lies. Speed kills but absolute speed kills absolutely.
Music is meaningless noise unless it touches a receiving mind.
There are only two things worth aiming for, good music and a clean conscience.
People who make music together cannot be enemies, at least while the music lasts.
Your task it is, amid confusion, rush, and noise, to grasp the lasting, calm and meaningful, and finding it anew, to hold and treasure it.
Tonality is a natural force, like gravity.
The reactions music evokes are not feelings, but they are the images, memories of feelings.
Mordre wol out, that se we day by day.
The only certainty about following the crowd is that you will all get there together.
I'm literate, and the idea of leaving children illiterate is criminal.
I am back in LA now. And I keep thinking back to my time in New York after the bombings. . . . I was crying so much I could not see, and the other diners joined in, and I thought, What do you do with such atheistic evil?