"Oh yes, much, because music is just something that comes to you. You don't question it"

"Questions are never indiscreet, answers sometimes are"

"Music is my religion"

"Question everything. Learn something. Answer nothing"

"Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness"

"Music is the shorthand of emotion"

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

"The question is not, "Can they reason?" nor, "Can they talk?" but rather, "Can they suffer?""

"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"

"The power to question is the basis of all human progress"