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

Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.

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.

Children must receive music instruction as naturally as food, with as much pleasure as they derive from a ball game, and this must happen from the beginning of their lives.

It's easier to dismiss ghosts in the daylight.

Interactive computers and software will, I think, provide a less costly method of doing some kinds of inquiry, in knowledge acquisition and even reasoning and interaction.

I'm coming from a place of total strength and humility now.

No artifact is a work of art if it does not help to humanize us. Without art...our world would have remained a jungle.

Voters definitely believe Washington is corrupt - but most think its bipartisan.

You've got a chemistry class; I want a piece of your mind; You don't know what you started when you mixed it up with mine.

Suddenly, it's all too much. Bryn and the bump watch. Vanessa with my high school yearbook. The idea that nothing's sacred. Everything's fodder. That my life belongs to anyone but me.

Oppression has no logic--just a self-fulfilling prophecy, justified by a self-perpetuating system.

I had learning disabilities, and I couldn't express myself in the written word.

We are each of us born into the arms of mortality, the Lord recognizing our need to be held.