“To claim that music is more important than oxygen would be trite and sentimental. It would also be true.”
“If I asked people how many people there are in the world, I’ll bet more than half would reply, “More than half.” True, but would they also know Georgia is a state, a country, and a painter?”
“It is one of the worst things of sentiment that the voice grows to be more important than the words, and the speaker than that what is spoken.”
“Only a fool would ever claim she was more beautiful than I. The world was full of fools, however.”
“I would teach children music, physics, and philosophy; but most importantly music, for the patterns in music and all the arts are the keys to learning”
“I would argue that coffee has been far more important to literature than alcohol.”