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.

I know nothing at all about music.

I wish I could score everything for horns.

Any so-called stimulus program is a ruse. The government can increase its spending only by reducing private spending equivalently.

For once you are going to hear a dream, a dream that I have made sound... I dreamed all this; never could my poor head have invented such a thing.

The language of tones belongs equally to all mankind, and melody is the absolute language in which the musician speaks to every heart.

Joy is not in things; it is in us.