My destiny is solitude, and my life is work.

When religion becomes artificial, art has a duty to rescue it. Art can show that the symbols which religions would have us believe literally true are actually figurative. Art can idealize those symbols, and so reveal the profound truths they contain.

Whatever my passions demand of me, I become for the time being - musician, poet, director, author, lecturer or anything else.

Wherever the fish are, that's where we go.

The sounds proceeding from the instruments of symphonic music seem to be the very organs of the mysteries of creation; for they reveal, as it were, the primal stirrings of creation which brought order out of chaos long before the human heart was there to behold them.

Divorce is one of the most financially traumatic things you can go through. Money spent on getting mad or getting even is money wasted.

I know absolutely nothing about music.