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

Music is the arithmetic of sounds as optics is the geometry of light.

People who have memorized your songs-how can you not love them?

A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.

Music is my weapon. I believe in music, in its spirituality, its exaltation, its ecstatic nobility, its humor, its power to penetrate to the basic fineness of every human being.

Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

Never look at the brass - it only encourages them.

Music washes away from the soul the dust of every-day life.

There are two golden rules for an orchestra: start together and finish together. The public doesn't give a damn what goes on in between.

I must play the instrument I've got.