“Don't be afraid, just play the music.”

“If one plays good music, people don't listen, and if one plays bad music people don't talk.”

“Don't search for the music in other people. Play it yourself.”

“I play until my fingers are blue and stiff from the cold, and then I keep on playing. Until I'm lost in the music. Until I am the music--notes and chords, the melody and harmony. It hurts, but it's okay because when I'm the music, I'm not me. Not sad. Not afraid. Not desperate. Not guilty.”

“Don't be afraid of death; be afraid of an unlived life. You don't have to live forever, you just have to live.”

“They're afraid of change, and we must change. They're afraid of the young, and we are the young. They're afraid of music, and music is our life. They're afraid of books, and knowledge, and ideas. They're most afraid of our magic.”