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

I believe that man's noblest endowment is his capacity to change.

Stillness is our most intense mode of action. It is in our moments of deep quiet that is born every idea, emotion, and drive which we eventually honor with the name of action. We reach highest in meditation, and farthest in prayer. In stillness every human being is great.

It is hard to think of another composer who so perfectly marries form and passion.

Mozart's music is constantly escaping from its frame, because it cannot be contained in it.

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

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