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

Music is only understood when one goes away singing it and only loved when one falls asleep with it in one's head, and finds it still there on waking up the next morning.

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.

Lucidity is the first purpose of color in music.

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

In Spring! In the creation of art it must be as it is in Spring!