Art postulates communion, and the artist has an imperative need to make others share the joy which he experiences himself.

It is my conviction that the public always shows itself more honest in its spontaneity than do those who officially set themselves up as judges of works of art.

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

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

We cannot describe sound, but we cannot forget it either.

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.

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