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.

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

Every great inspiration is but an experiment.

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

The possibilities of percussion sounds, I believe, have never been fully realized

My God! What has sound got to do with music?