“This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before.”
“The key to the mystery of a great artist is that for reasons unknown, he will give away his energies and his life just to make sure that one note follows another... and leaves us with the feeling that something is right in the world.”
“"Life without music is unthinkable. Music without life is academic. That is why my contact with music is a total embrace."”
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