“I've never known a musician who regretted being one. Whatever deceptions life may have in store for you, music itself is not going to let you down.”

“I have never known a musician who regretted being one. Whatever deceptions life may have in store for you, music itself is not going to let you down. ”

“The way to write American music is simple. All you have to do is be an American and then write any kind of music you wish.”

“It is easy to go down into Hell...; but to climb back again, to retrace one's steps to the upper air---there's the rub...”

“Let us go singing as far as we go: the road will be less tedious.”

“Trust one who has gone through it.”

“Through pain I've learned to comfort suffering men”