I would advise my young colleagues, the composers of symphonies, to drop in sometimes at the kindergarten, too. It is there that it is decided whether there will be anybody to understand their works in twenty years time.

Music is a manifestation of the human spirit, similar to language. Its greatest practitioners have conveyed to mankind things not possible to say in any other language. If we do not want these things to remain dead treasures, we must do our utmost to make the greatest possible number of people understand their idiom.

I would advise my young colleagues, the composers of symphonies, to drop in sometimes at the kindergarten, too. It is there that it is decided whether there will be anybody to understand their works in twenty years time.

Let us take our children seriously! Everything else follows from this...only the best is good enough for a child.

Often a single experience will open the young soul to music for a whole lifetime

We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound.

There is no complete spiritual life without music, for the human soul has regions which can be illuminated only by music.