I am engaged to Concord and my own private pursuits by 10,000 ties, and it would be suicide to rend them.
Music can be transformative, utterly transformative. The act of music is utterly transformative.
Quiet is the absence of sound. Silence is the presence of silence.
Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.
Usually people think that it is the musicians who create the music, but in fact it is music who creates the musicians.
In strange and uncertain times such as those we are living in, sometimes a reasonable person might despair. But hope is unreasonable and love is greater even than this. May we trust the inexpressible benevolence of the creative impulse.
If the audience doesn't hear what is going on, is it going on?
Success is the American Dream. And that success is not something to be ashamed of, or to demonize.
Nowhere can I think so happily as in a train.
Manchester United might not win Premier League every year, but we'd always be up there competing for it every year.
Here I am leaving you clues. I am singing now while Rome burns. We are all just trying to be holy. My applejack, my silent night, just mash your lips against me. We are all going forward. None of us are going back.