Music is at once the most wonderful, the most alive of all the arts- it is the most abstract, the most perfect, the most pure- and the most sensual. I listen with my body and it is my body that aches in response to the passion and pathos embodied in this music.
Reborn: Early Diaries 1947-1963 (ed. Penguin UK, 2012) - ISBN: 9780141932590