“You can't speak Music with notes alone, but you can speak Music without notes at all!”

“...music does not mean anything at all. You cannot ask it to speak to you in such concrete terms. It can evoke, affect, cajole and persuade, but it's language is not that of speech. Indeed, if a composer can say in literal terms what his music means, he had much better write prose than notes... Let music, when you hear it, work on you in its own way...let it flow around you and find its own way to touch you. It is not something you must translate moment by moment. Give it your attention. If it fails to speak to you in its own manner then, well, it is a failure of the music, not in yourself.”

“I love music, but I can't sing a note.”

“If you want to make beautiful music,you must play the black note and the white notes together”

“like a note of music, you are about to become nothing”

“You do not know the first note of the music that moves me.”