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

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

Lucidity is the first purpose of color in music.

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.

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

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