Music is well said to be the speech of angels.

Without music, life would be a mistake.

Music is love in search of a word.

Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memory.

If anyone has conducted a Beethoven performance, and then doesn’t have to go to an osteopath, then there’s something wrong.

When I speak of the gifted listener, I am thinking of the nonmusician primarily, of the listener who intends to retain his amateur status. It is the thought of just such a listener that excites the composer in me.

Virtues are acquired through endeavor, which rests wholly upon yourself.

The advice I am giving always to all my students is above all to study the music profoundly… music is like the ocean, and the instruments are little or bigger islands, very beautiful for the flowers and trees.

Secretly, I wanted to look like Jimi Hendrix, but I could never quite pull it off.

Music is well said to be the speech of angels.