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.

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

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.

Rests always sound well.