"I have terrible hearing trouble. I have unwittingly helped to invent and refine a type of music that makes its principal proponents deaf"

"Music is my religion"

"Music is the shorthand of emotion"

"Problems are the price of progress. Don't bring me anything but trouble. Good news weakens me"

"The trouble with being punctual is that nobody's there to appreciate it"

"The trouble with children is that they're not returnable"

"My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary"

"If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away"

"Music is the universal language of mankind"

"All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff"

"It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so"