My God, so much I like to drink Scotch that sometimes I think my name is Igor Stra-whiskey.

Look for the music on all things, and life will be a symphony of joy. My music is best understood by children and animals.

The Church knew what the psalmist knew: Music praises God. Music is well or better able to praise him than the building of the church and all its decoration; it is the Church's greatest ornament.

An audience is an abstraction; it has no taste. It must depend on the only person who has (pardon, should have), the conductor.

Nothing is likely about masterpieces, least of all whether there will be any.

I know that the twelve notes in each octave and the variety of rhythm offer me opportunities that all of human genius will never exhaust.

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