My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.

Music comes to me more readily than words.

Music is the medicine of the mind.

Music is feeling. You can try to verbalize it. It really just hits you or it doesn’t.

As long as we live, there is never enough singing.

Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.

Music is everybody’s business. It’s only the publishers who think people own it.

Mournful and yet grand is the destiny of the artist.

Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.

Talking about music is like dancing about architecture.

Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances.

Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.

A gentleman is someone who knows how to play the banjo and doesn’t.

I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.

Music is the shorthand of emotion.

The music we listen to may not define who we are. But it’s a damn good start.

I haven’t understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.

The only proof he needed for the existence of God was music.

Musicians don’t retire; they stop when there’s no more music in them.