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.

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

Lucidity is the first purpose of color in music.

I never was very capable of expressing my feelings or emotions in words. I don't know whether this is the cause why I did it in music and also why I did it in painting. Or vice versa: That I had this way as an outlet. I could renounce expressing something in words.

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

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

Rests always sound well.