The one true comment on a piece of music is another piece of music.

Good composers don't borrow, they steal

When I discovered that I had been made custodian of this gift, in my earliest childhood, I pledged myself to God to be worthy of it, but I have received uncovenanted mercies all my life. The custodian has too often kept faith on his all-too-worldly terms.

The profound meaning of music's essential aim... is to produce a communion, a union of man with his fellow man with the Supreme Being

I cannot now evaluate the events that, at the end of those thirty years, made me discover the necessity of religious belief. I was not reasoned into my disposition. Though I admire the structured thought of theology, it is to religion no more than counterpoint exercises are to music.

Hurry? I have no time to hurry.

There is music wherever there is rhythm, as there is life wherever there beats a pulse.