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

The principal function of form is to advance our understanding. It is the organization of a piece which helps the listener to keep the idea in mind, to follow its development, its growth, its elaboration, its fate.

My music is not modern, it is merely badly played

Lucidity is the first purpose of color in music.

If it is art, it is not for all, and if it is for all, it is not art.

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

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