“If Music is a Place -- then Jazz is the City, Folk is the Wilderness, Rock is the Road, Classical is a Temple.”

“No Temple made by mortal human hands can ever compare to the Temple made by the gods themselves. That building of wood and stone that houses us and that many believe conceals the great Secret Temple from prying eyes, somewhere in its heart of hearts, is but a decoy for the masses who need this simple concrete limited thing in their lives. The real Temple is the whole world, and there is nothing as divinely blessed as a blooming growing garden.”

“A great ancient poet was blind. A great classical composer was deaf. Many of us are dumb. What have we to show for it?”

“A wise person is like a smoothly polished rock: it takes time to become either.”

“Why does every road eventually narrow into a point at the horizon? Because that's where the point lies.”

“In the kingdom of glass everything is transparent, and there is no place to hide a dark heart.”

“The heartland lies where the heart longs to be. Sometimes it takes a lifetime to find the true place to plant it.”