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

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

A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, and a bright, infinite future.

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 from that Earth emerges a musical poetry, which is by the nature of its sources tonal. I believe that these sources cause to exist a phonology of music, which evolves from the universal known as the harmonic series.

Elvis is the greatest cultural force in the twentieth century. He introduced the beat to everything, music, language, clothes, it's a whole new social revolution - the 60's comes from it.

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