I have two answers to everything and one answer to nothing.

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.

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

Children must receive music instruction as naturally as food, with as much pleasure as they derive from a ball game, and this must happen from the beginning of their lives.

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

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

Even experimental composers, revolutionary composers, self-styled radicals are, in writing revolutionary music, recognizing the music that preceded them precisely by trying to avoid it.