I don't write music for sissy ears.

I don't write music for sissy ears.

There can be nothing exclusive about substantial art. It comes directly out of the heart of the experience of life and thinking about life and living life.

Every great inspiration is but an experiment - though every experiment we know, is not a great inspiration.

An apparent confusion, if lived with long enough, may become orderly . . . A rare experience of a moment at daybreak, when something in nature seems to reveal all consciousness, cannot be explained at noon. Yet it is part of the day's unity

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

If a composer has a nice wife and some nice children, how can he let the children starve on his dissonances?