"Music causes us to think eloquently...." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Do not be caught by the sensational in nature, as a coarse red-faced sunset, a garrulous waterfall, or a fifteen thousand foot mountain... avoid prettiness - the word looks much like pettiness - and there is but little difference between them.”

“A man is not to aim at innocence, any more than he is to aim at hair, but he is to keep it.”

“Life is March weather, savage and serene in one hour.”

“When I think of anything properly describable as a beautiful idea, it is always in the form of music. I have written and printed probably 10,000,000 words in English but all the same I shall die an inarticulate man, for my best ideas beset me in a language I know only vaguely and speak only as a child.”

“The thing is, I make music I like. So it's just weird if someone says they don't like it.”

“I want to make people feel things when they hear my music I want to give a song to someone who is going through a break up, I want to give a song to someone who loves someone and can't tell them. A song for someone who has just fallen in love and a song for just people who are living their lives.”

“It is so rare to meet with a man outdoors who cherishes a worthy thought in his mind, which is independent of the labor of his hands. Behind every man's busy-ness there should be a level of undisturbed serenity and industry, as within the reef encircling a coral isle there is always an expanse of still water, where the depositions are going on which will finally raise it above the surface.”

“Power to translate is the test of having really understood one's own meaning.”

“To him whose elastic and vigorous thought keeps pace with the sun, the day is a perpetual morning.”