The joy of music should never be interrupted by a commercial.

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

The second fiddle. I can get plenty of first violinists, but to find someone who can play the second fiddle with enthusiasm

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

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

Einstein said that "the most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious." So why do so many of us try to explain the beauty of music, thus depriving it of its mystery?

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.