"What is this? It's music to get a brain seizure by"

"Music is my religion"

"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"

"I've got the brain of a four year old. I'll bet he was glad to be rid of it"

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

"An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied"

"We worked very hard to make the lyrics suit the music. I can't, like Elton John, for example, compose by lyrics. Elton has a great talent for that. Whatever you give him, including your questions, he composes in half an hour and makes a great song out of it"

"Music is the shorthand of emotion"

"A nation creates music - the composer only arranges it"

"Music in the soul can be heard by the universe"

"I call architecture frozen music"