Favorite quotes

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

All music is beautiful.

Any good music must be an innovation.

Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.

Composers shouldn’t think too much – it interferes with their plagiarism.

Everywhere in the world, music enhances a hall, with one exception: Carnegie Hall enhances the music.

Hell is full of musical amateurs.

I don’t care much about music. What I like is sounds.

I don’t know anything about music. In my line you don’t have to.

I’ve said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie Ray Vaughan missed on both counts, but I never noticed.