“Composers shouldn’t think too much – it interferes with their plagiarism.”-Howard Dietz

“I never had much interest in the piano until I realized that every time I played, a girl would appear on the piano bench to my left and another to my right.”― Duke Ellington

“If you talk bad about country music, it’s like saying bad things about my momma. Them’s fightin’ words.”-Dolly Parton

“Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.”― Igor Stravinsky

“Beethoven tells you what it’s like to be Beethoven and Mozart tells you what it’s like to be human. Bach tells you what it’s like to be the universe.”― Douglas Adams

“I stole everything I ever heard, but mostly I stole from the horns.”— Ella Fitzgerald