But maybe music was not intended to satisfy the curious definiteness of man. Maybe it is better to hope that music may always be transcendental language in the most extravagant sense.

One thing I am certain of is that, if I have done anything good in music, it was, first, because of my father, and second, because of my wife

My God! What has sound got to do with music?

A song has a few rights the same as ordinary citizens... if it happens to feel like flying where humans cannot fly... to scale mountains that are not there, who shall stop it?

It is conceivable that what is unified form to the author or composer may of necessity be formless to his audience.

Most of the forward movements of life in general ... have been the work of essentially religiously-minded people.

Expression, to a great extent, is a matter of terms, and terms are anyone's. The meaning of 'God' may have a billion interpretations if there be that many souls in the world