I can't live one day without hearing music, playing it , studying it , or thinking about it .

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.

Mozart combines serenity, melancholy, and tragic intensity into one great lyric improvisation. Over it all hovers the greater spirit that is Mozart's - the spirit of compassion, of universal love, even of suffering - a spirit that knows no age, that belongs to all ages.

I can't live one day without hearing music, playing it , studying it , or thinking about it .

A work of art does not answer questions, it provokes them; and its essential meaning is in the tension between the contradictory answers.

Music, of all the arts, stands in a special region, unlit by any star but its own, and utterly without meaning ... except its own.

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