Thank God for movie music. It preserves the rich vocabulary in classical music through challenging times.

The world changes when there's music in it.

If you're curious, if you have a capacity for wonder, if you're alive, you know all that you need to know [about music].

You can't have Bach, Mozart and Beethoven as your favorite composers. They simply define what music is!

Pop music, which I deeply admire and wish I could play better than I can, is based on expressing one mood, one feeling at a time. Classical music is by its very nature involved with different kinds of music, constantly transforming one another, which is more akin to the way our experience of life really is.

I think music needs to be presented in a way so that kids can grasp songs, dances, simple music that's associated with some particular defining moment in human experience.

But those musics do not address the larger kind of architecture in time that classical music does, whatever each one of us knows that classical music must mean.