"He who lives by the crystal ball will eat shattered glass."

"If you never take risks, you'll never accomplish great things. Everybody dies, but not everyone has lived."

"The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils."

"Instead of weeping when a tragedy occurs in a songbird's life, it sings away its grief. I believe we could well follow the pattern of our feathered friends."

"If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it; that surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die."

"There is nothing in the world so much like prayer as music is."