The reactions music evokes are not feelings, but they are the images, memories of feelings.

There are only two things worth aiming for, good music and a clean conscience.

People who make music together cannot be enemies, at least while the music lasts.

Music is meaningless noise unless it touches a receiving mind.

Your task it is, amid confusion, rush, and noise, to grasp the lasting, calm and meaningful, and finding it anew, to hold and treasure it.

There are only twelve tones and they need to be treated carefully.

Tonality is a natural force, like gravity.

My God, how can anyone ever be a master of music?

A day, whether six or seven years ago or whether six thousand years ago, is just as near to the present as yesterday. Why? Because all time is contained in now.

We need conscious entertainment that engage and influence its consumer to rational thinking.

For pilgrims walking...every footfall is doubled, landing at once on the actual road and also on the path of faith.

I don’t think this is working out between us, ” I told him. “You and I want different things. It’s not me, it’s you.

I'm so used to swimming with the piranhas. And they're really not that bad.

Temperance to be a virtue must be free, and not forced.

Poetry is a search for syllables to shoot at the barriers of the unknown and the unknowable.

Biophilia, if it exists, and I believe it exists, is the innately emotional affiliation of human beings to other living organisms.

Every conversation, every failure, every opportunity is a chance to get better. Starting today.

I don't know what 'home' or 'abroad' is any more.