To Bach, notes were not just sounds but the very stuff of creation. - Leonard Bernstein

Einstein said that "the most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious." So why do so many of us try to explain the beauty of music, thus depriving it of its mystery?

The Rhapsody is not a composition at all. It's a string of separate paragraphs stuck together — with a thin paste of flour and water… I don’t think there has been such an inspired melodist on this earth since Tchaikovsky… but if you want to speak of a composer, that's another matter.

A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, and a bright, infinite future.