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

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

Expression, to a great extent, is a matter of terms, and terms are anyone's. The meaning of 'God' may have a billion interpretations if there be that many souls in the world

Beauty in music is too often confused with something that lets the ears lie back in an easy chair. Many sounds that we are used to do not bother us, and for that reason we are inclined to call them beautiful. Frequently, when a new or unfamiliar work is accepted as beautiful on its first hearing, its fundamental quality is one that tends to put the mind to sleep.

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

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.

Is not beauty in music too often confused with something which lets the ears lie back in an easy chair?