Vivaldi didn't write 400 concertos; he wrote one concerto 400 times.

I remember being handed a score composed by Mozart at the age of eleven. What could I say? I felt like de Kooning, who was asked to comment on a certain abstract painting, and answered in the negative. He was then told it was the work of a celebrated monkey. 'That's different. For a monkey, it's terrific'.

Music is the sole domain in which man realizes the present.

Money may kindle, but it cannot by itself, and for very long, burn.

Music must be listened to; it is not enough to hear it. A duck hears also.

I live neither in the past nor in the future. I am in the present. I cannot know what tomorrow will bring forth. I can know only what the truth is for me today. That is what I am called upon to serve, and I serve it in all lucidity.

The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music they should be taught to love it instead.