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

A plague on eminence! I hardly dare cross the street any more without a convoy, and I am stared at wherever I go like an idiot member of a royal family or an animal in a zoo; and zoo animals have been known to die from stares.

The past slips from our grasp. It leaves us only scattered things. The bond that united them eludes us. Our imagination usually fills in the void by making use of preconceived theories...Archaeology, then, does not supply us with certitudes, but rather with vague hypotheses. And in the shade of these hypotheses some artists are content to dream, considering them less as scientific facts than as sources of inspiration.

Why is it that whenever I hear a piece of music I don't like, it's always by Villa Lobos?

The performance of performance has developed to such an extent in recent years that it challenges the music itself and will soon threaten it with relegation.

Music is given to us specifically to make order of things, to move from an anarchic, individualistic state to a regulated, perfectly concious one, which alone insures vitality and durability.

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