“Men have died for this music. You can't get more serious than that.”

“The bank is something more than men, I tell you. It's the monster. Men made it, but they can't control it.”

“You can never be done with music. No more than you can be done with breathing. The day you quit is the day you die.”

“O, but they say, the tongues of dying men enforce attention, like deep harmony: where words are scarce, they are seldom spent in vain: for they breathe truth, that breathe their words in pain. he, that no more must say, is listened more than they whom youth and ease have taught to gloze; more are men's ends marked, than their lives before: the setting sun, and music at the close, as the last taste of sweets, is sweetest last; writ in rememberance more than things long past”

“In the end, all men die. How you lived will be far more important to the Almighty than what you accomplished.”

“After you've seen behind the facade of a stage set you can't take the play seriously any more. You can't go backwards and regain your ignorance; you have to move forward.”