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

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

My music is not modern, it is merely badly played

Rests always sound well.

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.

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.

Lucidity is the first purpose of color in music.