Man has made many machines, complex and cunning, but which of them indeed rivals the workings of his heart?

I am perhaps the oldest musician in the world. I am an old man but in many senses a very young man. And this is what I want you to be, young, young all your life, and to say things to the world that are true.

The heart of the melody can never be put down on paper.

The most perfect technique is that which is not noticed at all.

Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart.

Each person has inside a basic decency and goodness. If he listens to it and acts on it, he is giving a great deal of what it is the world needs most. It is not complicated but it takes courage. It takes courage for a person to listen to his own goodness and act on it.