"Music has always been my protection against the world, from a very young age. I feel safe inside of a jam"

"Music is my religion"

"The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions"

"Neurotics complain of their illness, but they make the most of it, and when it comes to talking it away from them they will defend it like a lioness her young"

"Music is the shorthand of emotion"

"Young men have a passion for regarding their elders as senile"

"Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth"

"No worse fate can befall a young man or woman than becoming prematurely entrenched in prudence and negation"

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

"In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience"

"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"