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.

Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.

This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before.

The gift of imagination is by no means an exclusive property of the artist; it is a gift we all share; to some degree or other all of us, all of you, are endowed with the powers of fantasy.

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

Music, because of its specific and far-reaching metaphorical powers, can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable.

I have two answers to everything and one answer to nothing.