This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before.
The joy of music should never be interrupted by a commercial.
A work of art does not answer questions, it provokes them; and its essential meaning is in the tension between the contradictory answers.
The 20th century has been a badly written drama, from the beginning.
If you're a good composer, you steal good steals.
A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, and a bright, infinite future.