Put you energy into music. If it fails you, you can become an accountant or a dentist. And then if you become a dentist or an accountant, its too late to become a musician afterwards. – Peter Tork
Music is the effort we make to explain to ourselves how our brains work. We listen to Bach transfixed because this is listening to a human mind. – Lewis Thomas
Once the good man was dead, one wore his hat and another his sword as he had worn them, a third had himself barbered as he had, a fourth walked as he did, but the honest man that he was — nobody any longer wanted to be that. – G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenberg