Classical music is a special taste like Greek language or pre-Columbian archeology, not a common culture of reciprocal communication and psychological shorthand.

Freedom of the mind requires not only, or not even especially the absence of legal constraints but the presence of alternative thoughts.

We are like ignorant shepherds living on a site where great civilizations once flourished. The shepherds play with the fragments that pop up to the surface, having no notion of the beautiful structures of which they were once a part.

Education is the movement from darkness to light.

We need history, not to tell us what happened or to explain the past, but to make the past alive so that it can explain us and make a future possible.

Classical music is a special taste like Greek language or pre-Columbian archeology, not a common culture of reciprocal communication and psychological shorthand.

The artist is the most interesting of all phenomena, for he represents creativity, the definition of man.