If you want to know about the Sixties, play the music of The Beatles.

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

If you want to know about the Sixties, play the music of The Beatles.

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

If a literary man puts together two words about music, one of them will be wrong.

Listening to the Fifth Symphony of Ralph Vaughan Williams is like staring at a cow for 45 minutes.

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