“I didn't do music to live; I lived so that I could do music.”
“But," said I, "to be quite honest, I do not think I can live without something of a musical society. I condition for nothing else, but without music, life would be a blank to me.”
“I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music”
“To live is to be musical, starting with the blood dancing in your veins. Everything living has a rhythm. Do you feel your music?”
“The unhappiest people I know, romantically speaking, are the ones who like pop music the most; and I don't know whether pop music has caused this unhappiness, but I do know that they've been listening to the sad songs longer than they've been living the unhappy lives.”
“Music is what I have to do, I only answer the questions so that I can do it.”