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

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

From New Year's on the outlook brightens; good humor lost in a mood of failure returns. I resolve to stop complaining.

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

What [Louis Armstrong] does is real, and true, and honest, and simple, and even noble. Every time this man puts his trumpet to his lips, even if only to practice three notes, he does it with his whole soul.

Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.

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