"My big ears indicated a talent for music. This thrilled me"

"Music is my religion"

"Better one's House be too little one day than too big all the Year after"

"Music is the shorthand of emotion"

"Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things"

"The leader must aim high, see big, judge widely, thus setting himself apart form the ordinary people who debate in narrow confines"

"Big words seldom accompany good deeds"

"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"