To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.

Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning.

" Evervybody hears, but few listen

Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody's piano playing in my living room has on the book I am reading.

The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music they should be taught to love it instead.

I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.