The main thing is to be satisfied with your work yourself. It's useless to have an audience happy if you are not happy.

Music that is born complex is not inherently better or worse than music that is born simple.

The main thing is to be satisfied with your work yourself. It's useless to have an audience happy if you are not happy.

You may be sitting in a room reading this book. Imagine one note struck upon the piano. Immediately that one note is enough to change the atmosphere of the room - proving that the sound element in music is a powerful and mysterious agent, which it would be foolish to deride or belittle.

The greatest moments of the human spirit may be deduced from the greatest moments in music.

This whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, “Is there a meaning to music?” My answer to that would be, “Yes.” And “Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?” My answer to that would be, “No.”

To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable.