Great art must proceed to precision and brevity. It presupposes the alert mind of an educated listener who, in a singleact of thinking, includes with every concept all associations pertaining to the complex.

Composing is a slowed-down improvisation; often one cannot write fast enough to keep up with the stream of ideas.

If music is frozen architecture, then the potpourri is frozen coffee-table gossip... Potpourri is the art of adding apples to pears.

My music is not modern, it is merely badly played

You cannot expect the Form before the Idea,For they will come into being together.

In Spring! In the creation of art it must be as it is in Spring!

Lucidity is the first purpose of color in music.