"For me, music is always the language which permits one to converse with the Beyond."

"But music, don't you know, is a dream from which the veils have been lifted. It's not even the expression of a feeling, it's the feeling itself."

"The best way to learn is through the powerful force of rhythm."

"The virtuosos look to the students of the world to do their share in the education of the great musical public. Do not waste your time with music that is trite or ignoble. Life is too short to spend it wandering in the barren Saharas of musical trash."

"The most efficient way to memorise a piece is to use the one which proceeds in an error free manner"

"To talk well and eloquently is a very great art, but that an equally great one is to know the right moment to stop."

"Listen to no one's advice except that of the wind in the trees. That can recount the whole history of mankind."

"I am more and more convinced that music is not, in essence, a thing which can be cast into a traditional and fixed form. It is made up of colors and rhythms."

"Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius."

I worked hard. Anyone who works as hard as I did can achieve the same results. The final aim and reason of all music is nothing other than the glorification of God and the refreshment of the spirit.

"The life's story of great geniuses is a sad one, without much tangible reward, which does not inspire future generations to face a similar fate. Alas also, it stands to reason why so many talent will not come to sparkle on the artistic firmanent."

"I would give my best quartet for a good razor."

"When you play, do not trouble yourself as to who is listening. Yet always play as though a master listened to you."

"The music is not in the notes, but in the silence between."

"There was no one near to confuse me, so I was forced to become original."

"Where the heart does not enter; there can be no music."

"Music is the inarticulate speech of the heart, which cannot be compressed into words, because it is infinite." "Joy is not in things; it is in us." "Never look at the trombones, it only encourages them."

The trombone is too sacred for frequent use.

“When the Earth is sick, the animals will begin to disappear, when that happens, The Warriors of the Rainbow will come to save them.” “If all the beasts were gone, men would die from a great loneliness of spirit. For whatever happens to the beasts, soon happens to man. All things are connected.”