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

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

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

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

Every great inspiration is but an experiment.

Vagueness is at times an indication of nearness to a perfect truth.

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