“But do you know how old I will be by the time I learn to really play the piano / act / paint / write a decent play?" Yes . . . the same age you will be if you don't.”
“You can’t write music right unless you know how the man that’ll play it plays poker.”
“The real you is still a little child who never grew up. Sometimes that little child comes out when you are having fun or playing, when you feel happy, when you are painting, or writing poetry, or playing the piano, or expressing yourself in some way. These are the happiest moments of your life - when the real you comes out, when you don't care about the past and you don't worry about the future. You are childlike.”
“Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.”
“You write a hit play the same way you write a flop”
“You don't stop playing because you get old, you get old because you stop playing.”