Knowledge is like a garden. If it is not cultivated, it cannot be harvested.

Without music, life would be a mistake.

Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul.

I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.

Music is the tonal reflection of beauty.

The joy of music should not be interrupted by a commercial.

It may well be easier to remember a list if one sings it or dances to it. However, these uses of the materials of an intelligence are essentially trivial. What is not trivial is the capacity to think musically.

I would advise my young colleagues, the composers of symphonies, to drop in sometimes at the kindergarten, too. It is there that it is decided whether there will be anybody to understand their works in twenty years’ time.