“The earth has its music for those who will listen.”

“Inner guidance is heard like soft music in the night by those who have learned to listen.”

“Erik is not truly dead. He lives on within the souls of those who choose to listen to the music of the night.”

“For those who live music with their heart, it is extremely exciting to listen to the magical and sweet melodies of sound every time.”

“Out of night has come the day
Out of night, our small earth.
Our words drift away.
Our words journey
to find those who will listen.”

“I object to background music no matter how good it is. Composers want people to listen to their music, they don't want them doing something else while their music is on. I'd like to get the guy who sold all those big businessmen the idea of putting music in the elevators, for he was really clever. What on earth good does it do anybody to hear those four or eight bars while going up a few flights.”

“What came first – the music or the misery? Did I listen to the music because I was miserable? Or was I miserable because I listened to the music? Do all those records turn you into a melancholy person?”

“Music is everything that one listens to with the intention of listening to music.”

“Those who value music pay for it. When left unmanaged, they can be left astray and lose the right path. As the listening level rises, the music progresses. The musicians of my generation tried to break the rule of singing.”

“All you can usually say about a poem or a picture is, 'Look at it, listen to it.' Whether you listen to a piece of music or a poem, or look at a picture or a jug or a piece of sculpture, what matters about it is not what it has in common with others of its kind, but what is singularly its own.”