Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.
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.
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.
Technique is communication: the two words are synonymous in conductors.
Inspiration is wonderful when it happens, but the writer must develop an approach for the rest of the time... The wait is simply too long.
I've been all over the world and I've never seen a statue of a critic.
This will be our reply to violence:to make music more intensely,more beautifully,more devotedly than ever before.
The key to the mystery of a great artist is that for reasons unknown, he will give away his energies and his life just to make sure that one note follows another... and leaves us with the feeling that...
The gift of imagination is by no means an exclusive property of the artist; it is a gift we all share; to some degree or other all of us are endowed with the powers of fantasy, the dullest of dullards...