In the olden days, everybody sang. You were expected to sing as well as talk. It was a mark of the cultured man to sing.

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.

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

From New Year's on the outlook brightens; good humor lost in a mood of failure returns. I resolve to stop complaining.

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

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

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