I believe that man's noblest endowment is his capacity to change.

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

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

I believe that from that Earth emerges a musical poetry, which is by the nature of its sources tonal. I believe that these sources cause to exist a phonology of music, which evolves from the universal known as the harmonic series.

Which of my Jewish roots do I follow?

To achieve great things, two things are needed; a plan, and not quite enough time.

I've been all over the world and I've never seen a statue of a critic.