Leonard Bernstein

“Life without music is unthinkable, music without life is academic. That is why my contact with music is a total embrace.” 

Any great work of art . . . revives and readapts time and space, and the measure of its success is the extent to which it makes you an inhabitant of that world - the extent to which it invites you in and lets you breathe its strange, special air.

Music . . . can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable.