The main thing is to be satisfied with your work yourself. It's useless to have an audience happy if you are not happy.

The greatest moments of the human spirit may be deduced from the greatest moments in music.

The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking "Is there a meaning to music?" My answer would be, "Yes", And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer to that would be "No."

Mozart tapped the source from which all music flows, expressing himself with a spontaneity and refinement and breathtaking rightness.

To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable.

So long as the human spirit thrives on this planet, music in some living form will accompany and sustain it and give it expressive meaning.

Music that is born complex is not inherently better or worse than music that is born simple.