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"I do not wear my emotions on my sleeve. I was once described by my own son Stephen as an emotional ostrich."

"Yeah, my son likes a lot of guitar bands. He gave me something the other day which was really good. He'll burn a CD for me full of things that he has, so he's a pretty good call if I want to check some of that stuff out... The other two aren't quite into that yet."
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"There is one thing that freezes a musician more than the deadliest physical cold, and that is the spiritual chill of an unresponsive audience!"

"Any composer who is gloriously conscious that he is a composer must believe that he receives his inspiration from a source higher than himself."

"American teachers have one indisputable advantage over foreign ones; they understand the American temperament and can judge its unevenness, its lights and its shadows."

"I had found English audiences highly satisfactory. They are the best listeners in the world. Perhaps the music-lovers of some of our larger cities equal the English, but I do not believe they can be surpassed in that respect."

"To the average mind popular music would mean compositions vulgarly conceived and commonplace in their treatment. That is absolutely false."

"I still feel the impulse to give young writers a hearing, and I believe I have played more unpublished compositions than any other band leader in the country."

"I can almost always write music; at any hour of the twenty-four, if I put pencil to paper, music comes."

"I have always believed that 98% of a student's progress is due to his own efforts, and 2% to his teacher."
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