. . . love is the only way we can obtain any warmth of communication in the world; and I suppose this is the truth.  The only thing is that love isn't the only way.  Art is also a way.  Communication via art.

-- Leonard Bernstein

Let us say that love is the way we have of communicating personally in the deepest way.  What art can do is extend this communication, magnify it, and carry it to vastly greater numbers of people.

-- Leonard Bernstein

This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before.

-- Leonard Bernstein

I should be sorry if I only entertained them.  I wish to make them better.

-- Georg Frideric Handel