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

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

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?

Everyone should have the opportunity of not being over-influenced.

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

You cannot set art off in a corner and hope for it to have vitality, reality, and substance.

In some century to come, when the school children will whistle popular tunes in quarter-tones--when the diatonic scale will be as obsolete as the pentatonic is now--perhaps then these borderland experiences may be both easily expressed and readily recognized. 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