Just as my fingers on the keys / Make music, so the selfsame sounds / On my spirit make a music, too. / Music is feeling, then, not sound.

Poetry is poetry, and one's objective as a poet is to achieve poetry precisely as one's objective in music is to achieve music

I was taken in by the bravado and the sounds of Mexico... not so much the music, but the spirit.

We don't see ourselves as four All-Stars. We see ourselves as one unit. It's like five fingers on a hand. You can do more damage together as a fist than spread out flat.

When I'm in my normal mood, music drips from my fingers.

If, while at the piano, you attempt to form little melodies, that is very well; but if they come into your mind of themselves, when you are not practising, you may be still more pleased; for the internal organ of music is then roused in you. The fingers must do what the head desires; not the contrary.