I Adore Extravagance But I Abhor Waste.

So Long As The Human Spirit Thrives On This Planet, Music In Some Living Form Will Accompany And Sustain It And Give It Expressive Meaning.

There Is Something About Music That Keeps Its Distance Even At The Moment That It Engulfs Us. It Is At The Same Time Outside And Away From Us And Inside And Part Of Us. In One Sense It Dwarfs Us, And In Another We Master It. We Are Led On And On, And Yet In Some Strange Way We Never Lose Control.

Mozart In His Music Was Probably The Most Reasonable Of The World's Great Composers. It Is The Happy Balance Between Flight And Control, Between Sensibility And Self-discipline, Simplicity And Sophistication Of Style That Is His Particular Province... Mozart Tapped Once Again The Source From Which All Music Flows, Expressing Himself With A Spontaneity And Refinement And Breath-taking Rightness That Has Never Since Been Duplicated.

Composers Tend To Assume That Everyone Loves Music. Surprisingly Enough, Everyone Doesn’t.

Arthur V. Berger Commenting On The Music Of Aaron Copland: Here Is At Last An American That We May Place Unapologetically Beside The Great Recognized Creative Figures Of Any Other Country.