“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”
“Teaching music is not my main purpose. I want to make good citizens. If children hear fine music from the day of their birth and learn to play it, they develop sensitivity, discipline and endurance. They get a beautiful heart.”
“If you learn music you'll learn most all there is to know.”
“...A strange art – music – the most poetic and precise of all the arts, vague as a dream and precise as algebra.”
“Music is ... A higher revelation than all Wisdom & Philosophy”
“I think the most important thing about music is the sense of escape.”