Life without music is unthinkable. Life without music is academic. That is why my contact with music is a total embrace.

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

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

I believe in people. I feel, love, need and respect people above all else, including natural scenery, organized piety and nationalistic superstructures. One human figure on the slope of a mountain can make the mountain disappear for me, one person fighting for truth can disqualify for me the entire system which had dispensed it.

This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before.

Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.

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