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

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

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

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

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

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.

Music is only understood when one goes away singing it and only loved when one falls asleep with it in one's head, and finds it still there on waking up the next morning.