"Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life."

"After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music."

"The advice I am giving always to all my students is above all to study the music profoundly... music is like the ocean, and the instruments are little or bigger islands, very beautiful for the flowers and trees..."

"Everywhere in the world, music enhances a hall, with one exception: Carnegie Hall enhances the music."

"Why waste money on psychotherapy when you can listen to the B Minor Mass?"

"Bach opens a vista to the universe. After experiencing him, people feel there is meaning to life after all."

"Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memory."

"How absurd and delicious it is to be in love with somebody younger than yourself. Everybody should try it."

"Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky."

"Love means never having to say you're sorry."