I don't write music for sissy ears.

It is more important to keep the horse going hard than to always play the exact notes.

Awards are merely the badges of mediocrity.

But maybe music was not intended to satisfy the curious definiteness of man. Maybe it is better to hope that music may always be transcendental language in the most extravagant sense.

If a poet knows more about a horse than he does about heaven, he might better stick to the horse, and some day the horse may carry him into heaven.

Most of the forward movements of life in general ... have been the work of essentially religiously-minded people.

I don't write music for sissy ears.