Favorite saying

• "If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music. Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them. If music be the food of love, play on. If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together. If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music. It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony. Music can change the world because it can change people. Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music. Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent. And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything. As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods; they kill us for their sport. A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life. "