“Music can elevate man to new heights. Especially elevator music.”

“Literature today is like elevator music for a narcoleptic.”

“It was a kind of sado-masochism. I would take the things that were painful to me and elevate them and, through the mantra of music, make them into a release.”

“Last night I snuck an orchestra into the elevator at my apartment. We made elevator music history until Marvin got his oboe caught in the door and Mrs. Hoffstead started singing "Yes We Have No Bananas Today" in the hall so loud the police were called in from Equador.”

“Everygeneration wants to be the last. Every generation hates the next trend in music they can't understand. We hate to give up those reins of our culture.To find our own music playing in elevators. The ballad for our revolution, turned into background music for a television commercial. To find ourgeneration's clothes and hair suddenly retro.”

“Stairs elevate you; ethics elevates you; goodness elevates you; awareness elevates you; wisdom elevates you.”