Every great inspiration is but an experiment.

In 'thinking up' music I usually have some kind of a brass band with wings on it in back of my mind.

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

A song has a few rights the same as ordinary citizens... if it happens to feel like flying where humans cannot fly... to scale mountains that are not there, who shall stop it?

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.

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

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