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

Einstein said that "the most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious." So why do so many of us try to explain the beauty of music, thus depriving it of its mystery?

I'm no longer quite sure what the question is, but I do know that the answer is Yes.

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.

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

When I am with composers, I say I am a conductor. When I am with conductors, I say I am a composer.

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