What we do in life is determined by how we communicate to ourselves. In the modern world, the quality of life is the quality of communication.
Music is the art of sounds in the movement of time.
The function of the creative artist consists of making laws, not in following laws already made.
Music is sonorous air.
Music was born free; and to win freedom is its destiny.
Together with the puzzle, Mozart gives you the solution.
The brain, knowing that a person can't live forever in this world, rationalizes a future, or other-dimensional, world in which immortality is possible. In other words, religion is the earliest form of science fiction.
Crimes generally punish themselves.
And here we must narrowly watch ourselves, seeing that banquets can scarcely be celebrated blamelessly, for almost always luxury accompanies feasting; and when the body is swallowed up in the delight of refreshing itself, the heart relaxes to empty joys.
I have often said to the orchestra, especially to the younger players, 'Do your best, and love what you are doing, because you are allowed to do this thing. ' By this I mean, they can do what millions of people cannot do. Many people cannot think of playing music or listening to it until six o'clock in the evening. To be involved professionally in a thing as creative as this is a great privilege and we have a duty to make it in such a way that we can help bring pleasure and a sense of fulfillment to those who are not so fortunate.