Children must receive music instruction as naturally as food, with as much pleasure as they derive from a ball game, and this must happen from the beginning of their lives.

It would be nice to hear someone accidentally whistle something of mine, somewhere, just once.

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

Stillness is our most intense mode of action. It is in our moments of deep quiet that is born every idea, emotion, and drive which we eventually honor with the name of action. We reach highest in meditation, and farthest in prayer. In stillness every human being is great.

I have two answers to everything and one answer to nothing.

Life without music is unthinkable.

The 20th century has been a badly written drama, from the beginning.