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

Mozart's music is constantly escaping from its frame, because it cannot be contained in it.

The most difficult instrument to play in the orchestra is second fiddle.

Any great art work … revives and readapts time and space, and the measure of its success is the extent to which it makes you an inhabitant of that world - the extent to which it invites you in and lets you breathe its strange, special air.

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

Life without music is unthinkable. Life without music is academic. That is why my contact with music is a total embrace.

If you're a good composer, you steal good steals.