If A Literary Man Puts Together Two

The Whole Problem Can Be Stated Quite Simply By Asking "is There A Meaning To Music?" My Answer Would Be, "yes", And "can You State In So Many Words What The Meaning Is?" My Answer To That Would Be "no."

I Hope My Recordings Of My Own Works Won't Inhibit Other People's Performances. The Brutal Fact Is That One Doesn't Always Get The Exact Tempo One Wants, Although One Improves With Experience.

Inspiration May Be A Form Of Superconsciousness, Or Perhaps Of Subconsciousness - I Wouldn't Know. But I Am Sure It Is The Antithesis Of Self-consciousness.

Mozart In His Music Was Probably The Most Reasonable Of The World's Great Composers. It Is The Happy Balance Between Flight And Control, Between Sensibility And Self-discipline, Simplicity And Sophistication Of Style That Is His Particular Province... Mozart Tapped Once Again The Source From Which All Music Flows, Expressing Himself With A Spontaneity And Refinement And Breath-taking Rightness That Has Never Since Been Duplicated.

If A Literary Man Puts Together Two Words About Music, One Of Them Will Be Wrong.