Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water-bath is to the body.–Oliver Wendell Holmes
You can’t possibly hear the last movement of Beethoven’s Seventh and go slow.–Oscar Levant, explaining his way out of a speeding ticket
My life is music, and in some vague, mysterious and subconscious way, I have always been driven by a taut inner spring which has propelled me to almost compulsively reach for perfection in music, often–in fact, mostly–at the expense of everything else in my life.–Stan Getz