"So long as the human spirit thrives on this planet, music in some living form will accompany and sustain it and give it expressive meaning"

"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"

"Wonder if there is life on another planet? Let's suppose there is. Suppose further, that only one star in a trillion has a planet that could support life. If that were the case, then there would be at least 100 million planets that harbored life"

"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"

"It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn't feel like a giant. I felt very, very small"

"Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon. July 1969 AD. We came in peace for all mankind"

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