Anger doesn't win games.
The biggest thrill you can have is to tell people one of your songs, and have them be able to hum it.
I don't think they understand it's as important as math and science. It rounds you out as a person. I think it gives you a love of certain things. You don't have to become the next great composer. It's just nice to have heard certain things or to have seen certain things. It's part of being a human being.
Music can make a difference. There is a global nature to music, which has the potential to bring all people together. Music is truly an international language, and I hope to contribute by widening communication as much as I can.
I still have great faith in what is good and right in all of us.
I have always thought of music as a highway with many lanes.
I'm not one of those people who says, 'I never read reviews,' because I don't believe those people.
I will not waste time on second thoughts. My life will not be an apology. It will be a statement.
Diffidence is a sort of false modesty.
If that condition of mind and soul, which we call inspiration, lasted long without intermission, no artist could survive it. The strings would break and the instrument be shattered into fragments.
Do we not all spend the greater part of our lives under the shadow of an event that has not yet come to pass?.