"Seriously though, my father was the first African American to sign a contract with the Metropolitan Opera so I grew up with classical music and jazz in the home all the time"

"Music is my religion"

"Our Father and Our God, unto thee, O Lord we lift our souls"

"He's by best friend and the father of my children. He's a great ex"

"Music is the shorthand of emotion"

"Father told me that if I ever met a lady in a dress like yours, I must look her straight in the eyes"

"Children that are raised in a home with a married mother and father consistently do better in every measure of well-being than their peers who come from divorced or step-parent, single-parent, cohabiting homes"

"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"