I need drama in my life to keep making music.

I need drama in my life to keep making music.

See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?

See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?

We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof.

We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof.

As the longfingered sun
reaches out to touch
a cloistered trillium
or a lake trembles in
the light of read more

As the longfingered sun
reaches out to touch
a cloistered trillium
or a lake trembles in
the light of moon and stars
so can a poet's long rainbow
of words
play our heartstrings from afar.

Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.

Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.

Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.

Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.

Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.

Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.

We dance for laughter, we dance for tears, we dance for madness, we dance for fears, we dance for hopes, read more

We dance for laughter, we dance for tears, we dance for madness, we dance for fears, we dance for hopes, we dance for screams, we are the dancers, we create the dreams.

I've outdone anyone you can name -- Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Strauss. Irving Berlin, he wrote 1,001 tunes. I wrote 5,500.

I've outdone anyone you can name -- Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Strauss. Irving Berlin, he wrote 1,001 tunes. I wrote 5,500.