Wine snobbery, of course, is part showmanship, part sophistication, part knowledge, and part bluff

I can't live one day without hearing music, playing it , studying it , or thinking about it .

The 20th century has been a badly written drama, from the beginning.

To achieve great things, two things are needed; a plan, and not quite enough time.

The most difficult instrument to play in the orchestra is second fiddle.

Any great art work … revives and readapts time and space, and the measure of its success is the extent to which it makes you an inhabitant of that world - the extent to which it invites you in and lets you breathe its strange, special air.

The joy of music should never be interrupted by a commercial.