I made, over the years in Cambridge, several very good American friends, and America appeared to me, a land of promise in every sense of that word, a land of freedom from the inhibitions and restrictions that I felt in England.

You have your words, and I have mine.

I think people nowadays do tend to blame their parents for everything.

The best of Mozart's works cannot be even slightly rewritten without diminishment.

A child is born into a world of phenomena all equal in their power to enslave.

It's an extraordinary thing about Mozart is that you never tire of him... he never bores me, and he doesn't... not only bore me, that's too strong a word.

Can you think of anything worse one can do to anybody than take away their worship?