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

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

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!

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

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

My music is not modern, it is merely badly played

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.