Music . . .can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.

"Life without music is unthinkable. Music without life is academic. That is why my contact with music is a total embrace."

The key to the mystery of a great artist is that for reasons unknown, he will give away his energies and his life just to make sure that one note follows another . . . and leaves us with the feeling that something is right in the world.

Life without music is unthinkable. Music without life is academic. That is why my contact with music is a total embrace.

It was an initiation into the love of learning, of learning how to learn . . . as a matter of interdisciplinary cognition - that is, learning to know something by its relation to something else.

This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before.