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.

A work of art does not answer questions, it provokes them; and its essential meaning is in the tension between the contradictory answers.

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

Any asshole can write a tone-row. It takes a composer to write a tune.

Success is all very well as long as you don't inhale.

Mozart's music is constantly escaping from its frame, because it cannot be contained in it.

Children must receive music instruction as naturally as food, with as much pleasure as they derive from a ball game, and this must happen from the beginning of their lives.