“I’m just delighted to be living, to be able to have a simple conversation, to feel a ray of sunlight on my skin, to listen to the breeze move through the leaves of a tree.”
“Just as musicians feel about scores and melodies, and how dancers feel about steps and the flow of music, so are pilots one with the principal of flight, the magic of being aloft in the wind.”
“You’ve got to learn your instrument. Then, you practice, practice, practice. And then, when you finally get up there on the bandstand, forget all that and just wail.”