"Jazz is the only music in which the same note can be played night after night but differently each time"

"Music is my religion"

"Music is the shorthand of emotion"

"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"

"I've always been into melodies. That's what I love about music – a good melody that gives you goosebumps"

"To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man"

"Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music"

"What a nice night for an evening"