Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.

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.

A work of art does not answer questions, it provokes them; and its essential meaning is in the tension between the contradictory answers.

When I am with composers, I say I am a conductor. When I am with conductors, I say I am a composer.

I'm no longer quite sure what the question is, but I do know that the answer is Yes.

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