I believe that music surpasses even language in its power to mirror the innermost recesses of the human soul

I must confess, my Spanish is not so good - except I read a little, so I started with the English but then determined that it would have to be in Spanish.

Writing seems to be more difficult as you move through the years.

Although technical discussions are interesting to composers, I suspect that the truly magical and spiritual powers of music arise from deeper levels of our psyche.

As interesting as that music can occasionally be, I don't think it really replaces the other.

The development of new instrumental and vocal idioms has been one of the remarkable phenomena of recent music.

I have observed, too, that the people of the many countries that I have visited are showing an ever increasing interest in the classical and traditional music of their own cultures.