“Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memories. ”

“The arts which need interpretation are the arts of time -- music and poetry -- and not the arts of space -- sculpture and painting.”

“...A strange art – music – the most poetic and precise of all the arts, vague as a dream and precise as algebra.”

“That innate love of melody, which she had inherited from her ballad-singing mother, gave the simplest music a power which could well-nigh drag her heart out of her bosom at times.”

“I would teach children music, physics, and philosophy; but most importantly music, for the patterns in music and all the arts are the keys to learning”

“The task of art is to transform what is continuously happening to us, to transform all of these things into symbols, into music, into something which can last in man’s memory. That is our duty. If we don’t fulfill it, we feel unhappy.”