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

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.

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

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

Rests always sound well.

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