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

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.

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.

Passover and Easter are the only Jewish and Christian holidays that move in sync, like the ice skating pairs we saw during the winter Olympics.

If you look at the people in Hollywood who are heavy partiers, they're selfish, self-centered and egotistical.

The country only has charms for those not obliged to stay there.

You ask me, "Did I like Arsenio?" About as much as the Bicentennial.

The problem is that the economy isn't growing fast enough to accommodate the level of spending produced through the democratic process.

I lived in a world that at any moment could erupt into fire. It was the sort of knowledge that kept you on your toes.

Many (Christians) have zeal without knowledge, enthusiasm without enlightenment. In more modern jargon, they are keen but clueless.

Some of what we read in classical literature is not relative to our condition, but then many women novelists and poets have turned it upside down and told the stories from the other point of view.

There's no safer investment in the world than in the United States.

It's always fun to play cops and robbers.