Success is all very well as long as you don't inhale.

Music, of all the arts, stands in a special region, unlit by any star but its own, and utterly without meaning ... except its own.

Any asshole can write a tone-row. It takes a composer to write a tune.

A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, and a bright, infinite future.

The second fiddle. I can get plenty of first violinists, but to find someone who can play the second fiddle with enthusiasm

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.

Conducting is like making love to a hundred people at the same time.