My music is not modern, it is merely badly played

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

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

I am the slave of an internal power more powerful than my education.

I have never seen faces, but because I have looked people in the eye, only their gazes.

I owe very, very much to Mozart; and if one studies, for instance, the way in which I write for string quartet, then one cannot deny that I have learned this directly from Mozart. And I am proud of it!

I find above all that the expression, atonal music, is most unfortunate — it is on a par with calling flying the art of not falling, or swimming the art of not drowning.