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

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'm not interested in having an orchestra sound like itself. I want it to sound like the composer.

Which of my Jewish roots do I follow?

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

Music, because of its specific and far-reaching metaphorical powers, can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable.

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.