Music, Of All The Arts,

The Most Difficult Instrument To Play In The Orchestra Is Second Fiddle.

When I Am With Composers, I Say I Am A Conductor. When I Am With Conductors, I Say I Am A Composer.

Any Asshole Can Write A Tone-row. It Takes A Composer To Write A Tune.

What [louis Armstrong] Does Is Real, And True, And Honest, And Simple, And Even Noble. Every Time This Man Puts His Trumpet To His Lips, Even If Only To Practice Three Notes, He Does It With His Whole Soul.

I Hate You, Richard Wagner . . . But I Hate You On My Knees.