Einstein said that "the most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious." So why do so many of us try to explain the beauty of music, thus depriving it of its mystery?

Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.

To achieve great things, two things are needed; a plan, and not quite enough time.

This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before.

Life without music is unthinkable.

It is the artists of the world, the feelers and the thinkers who will ultimately save us; who can articulate, educate, defy, insist, sing and shout the big dreams.

The second fiddle. I can get plenty of first violinists, but to find someone who can play the second fiddle with enthusiasm

A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, and a bright, infinite future.

A work of art does not answer questions, it provokes them; and its essential meaning is in the tension between the contradictory answers.

I can't live one day without hearing music, playing it , studying it , or thinking about it .

I've been all over the world and I've never seen a statue of a critic.

I don't know how I look, but I know how I feel: Young. Goofy. Infinite.

Why do we shrink from change? What can come into being save by change?

We did not fight the Americans or the Europeans. We fight only the Israeli enemy that took our homes and homeland.

The modern dogma is comfort at any cost.

There are no pat answers - we're pushing through some new frontiers, and lessons of the past don't always apply.

Failure is often that early morning hour of darkness which precedes the dawning of the day of success.

I'm not a full model like those other girls. Mostly I was surprised that I could hang.

Now we are not merely to stick knowledge on to the soul: we must incorporate it into her; the soul should not be sprinkled with knowledge but steeped in it.

Investing in yourself is the best thing you can do. If you've got talents, no one can take them from you.