“Remember always that the composer's pen is still mightier than the bow of the violinist in you lie all the possibilities of the creation of beauty. ”

“Remember always that the composer's pen is still mightier than the bow of the violinist in you lie all the possibilities of the creation of beauty. ”

“My success is not due to any personal superiority over other people.”

“Remember always that the composer's pen is still mightier than the bow of the violinist in you lie all the possibilities of the creation of beauty. ”

“Anybody can write music of a sort. But touching the public heart is quite another thing.”

“I have always believed that 98% of a student's progress is due to his own efforts, and 2% to his teacher.”

“Jazz will endure just as long as people hear it through their feet instead of their brains.”

“Jazz will endure as long as people hear it through their feet instead of their brains ”

“The difference between the Parthenon and the World Trade Center, between a French wine glass and a German beer mug, between Bach and John Philip Sousa, between Sophocles and Shakespeare, between a bicycle and a horse, though explicable by historical moment, necessity, and destiny, is before all a difference of imagination.”