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

I'm not interested in having an orchestra sound like itself. I want it to sound like the composer.

Stillness is our most intense mode of action. It is in our moments of deep quiet that is born every idea, emotion, and drive which we eventually honor with the name of action. We reach highest in meditation, and farthest in prayer. In stillness every human being is great.

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

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

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

Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.