Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.

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

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.

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

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

Music, because of its specific and far-reaching metaphorical powers, can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable.

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