Without music, life would be a mistake.

Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music.

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

If an apprentice does not hear what a master hears, is then that quality not present in the music? Yes and no. In the world in which the apprentice lives no.

It is always fatal to have music or poetry interrupted.

Talking about music is like dancing about architecture.

Music is the universal language of mankind.

If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week.

When words leave off, music begins.

I write music with an exclamation point!

When we pay attention to nature's music, we find that everything on the Earth contributes to its harmony.

However, in modern conceptual frameworks there is a more sophisticated view. I would say that the act of music exists in several worlds simultaneously.

Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.

Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.

Where words fail, music speaks.