(I believe that) music come from the heart and returns to the heart—that music is spontaneous, impulsive expression—that its range is without limit—that music is forever growing—that music can be one element to help us build a new conception of life in which the madness and cruelty of wars will be replaced by a simple understanding of the brotherhood of man. 
Music can be all things to all men. It is like a great dynamic sun in the center of a solar system which sends out its rays and inspiration in every direction… It is as if the heavens open and a divine voice calls. Something in our souls responds and understands. We are speaking here of the most inspired music.

A painter paints his pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence. We provide the music, and you provide the silence.

I simply make music, and people have always been foolish enough to pay me for it. I never told them that I would have done it all for nothing. 

Conscience is that which hurts when everything else feels marvelous.

The highest reaches of music come thrillingly close to the central core and essence of life itself.