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

Which of my Jewish roots do I follow?

In the olden days, everybody sang. You were expected to sing as well as talk. It was a mark of the cultured man to sing.

A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, and a bright, infinite future.

Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.

The key to the mystery of a great artist is that for reasons unknown, he will give away his energies and his life just to make sure that one note follows another... and leaves us with the feeling that something is right in the world.

It would be nice to hear someone accidentally whistle something of mine, somewhere, just once.