To achieve great things, two things are needed; a plan, and not quite enough time.

I think it is time we learned the lesson of our century: that the progress of the human spirit must keep pace with technological and scientific progress, or that spirit will die. It is incumbent on our educators to remember this; and music is at the top of the spiritual must list. When the study of the arts leads to the adoration of the formula (heaven forbid), we shall be lost. But as long as we insist on maintaining artistic vitality, we are able to hope in man

This must be the mission of every man of goodwill: to insist, unflaggingly, at risk of becoming a repetitive bore, but to insist on the achievement of a world in which the mind will have triumphed over violence.

Even experimental composers, revolutionary composers, self-styled radicals are, in writing revolutionary music, recognizing the music that preceded them precisely by trying to avoid it.

I've been all over the world and I've never seen a statue of a critic.

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

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