1. “Music is forever: music should grow and mature with you, following you right on up until you die.”
2. “Listen to the sounds of silence.”
3. “Facts can be turned into art if one is artful enough.”
4. “Anybody can do a bad work, but not everybody does good work.”
5. “All lies and jests, still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest.”
6. “Faith is an island in the setting sun, but proof is the bottom line for everyone.”
7. “Improvisation is too good to leave to chance.”
8. “We’ve survived by believing our life is going to get better.”
9. “Sometimes even music cannot substitute for tears.”
10. “One man’s ceiling is another man’s floor.”
11. “Serious numbers will speak to us always.”
12. “There are two sorts of people in the world: Those who listen and those who are thinking about hat they are going to say next.”
13. “Much of songwriting is simply a mystery.”
14. “It’s actually very difficult to make something both simple and good.”
15. “Breakdowns come and breakdowns go.”