“Setting my mind on a musical instrument was like falling in love. All the world seemed bright and changed.”

“I integrate music from all over the world in my sets, harmony is what my music and life are built upon.”

“Each woman is like an instrument, waiting to be learned, loved, and finely played, to have at last her own true music made.”

“Diplomacy without arms is like music without instruments.”

“Autumn was falling, but the pine
Seem'd as it mock'd all change; no sign
Of season on its leaf was seen,
The same dark gloom of changeless green.
But like the gorgeous Persian bands
'Mid the stern race of northern lands,
The chesnut boughs were bright with all
That gilds and mocks the autumn's fall.”

“Knowledge of instrumentation should be acquired through experience. Instrumental composition should be conceived instrumentally, imagining and hearing a particular orchestra for each particular and diverse musical condition of the mind.”

“The Harmonica is the world’s best-selling musical instrument. You’re welcome.”

“Love is friendship set to music.”

“For years I have encouraged my patients and students to play musical instruments. I believe that it is essential for their ultimate health to be able to express themselves musically. Inside each of us is the deep desire to open our hearts and sing out with love. I find that when they allow music-making to enter into their lives, there is a beautiful change. There is an opening of the heart.”

“Heaven's ebon vault,
Studded with stars unutterably bright,
Through which the moon's unclouded grandeur rolls,
Seems like a canopy which love has spread
To curtain her sleeping world.”