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.

The fabric of existence weaves itself whole.

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

Please don't try to make things nice! All the wrong notes are right. Just copy as I have -- I want it that way.

It is conceivable that what is unified form to the author or composer may of necessity be formless to his audience.

One thing I am certain of is that, if I have done anything good in music, it was, first, because of my father, and second, because of my wife

The future of music may not lie entirely in music itself, but rather in the way it encourages and extends, rather than limits the aspirations and ideals of the people, in the way it makes itself a part with the finer things that humanity does and dreams of.