When the study of the arts leads to the adoration of the formula (heaven forbid), we shall be lost.

Conducting is like making love to a hundred people at the same time.

I hate you, Richard Wagner . . . but I hate you on my knees.

Life without music is meaningless, music without life is academic.

...we can all shut-up and go back to our caves.

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

I think it is time we learned the lesson of our century: that the progress of the human spirit must keep pace with technological and scientific progress, or that spirit will die. It is incumbent on our educators to remember this; and music is at the top of the spiritual must list. When the study of the arts leads to the adoration of the formula (heaven forbid), we shall be lost. But as long as we insist on maintaining artistic vitality, we are able to hope in man