"My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music." Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov

"Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." Vincent Van Gogh

"As much as I love music, I never really thought it was my life. I thought it was the vehicle I used to express my life" Herbie Mann

"My sister Mollie taught me that the difference between a violin and a fiddle is you don't spill beer on a violin." Tim O'Brien