I cannot pretend i am not without fear.

I suspect that music has qualities both of speech and writing - partly built in, partly individually constructed - and this goes on all through one's life.

There is only one cardinal rule: One must always listen to the patient.

Dangerously well’— what an irony is this: it expresses precisely the doubleness, the paradox, of feeling ‘too well

Music, uniquely among the arts, is both completely abstract and profoundly emotional. It has no power to represent anything particular or external, but it has a unique power to express inner states or feelings. Music can pierce the heart directly; it needs no mediation.

Music evokes emotion and emotion can bring it's memory.

My religion is nature. That’s what arouses those feelings of wonder and mysticism and gratitude in me.