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

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

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.

Lucidity is the first purpose of color in music.

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.

There is still plenty of good music to be written in C major.