»The power to move people, to tears or laughter, to violence or sympathy, is the strongest attribute that any art can have. In this respect, music is the prime mover: its call on the emotions is the most direct of all the arts.«
»Music requires mechanics, people banging, or blowing, or scraping, or strumming; but in the end it is intangible, it is dreams. You can’t get hold of music, you cannot look at it. You may think you can look at it by picking up a score, but that is just a piece of paper. Music does not exist without a pair of serviceable ears, and time. That is why I think it is the most wonderful art of all – why I get so ecstatic about it. Above all other things, music needs time.«