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

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?

If a poet knows more about a horse than he does about heaven, he might better stick to the horse, and some day the horse may carry him into heaven.

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

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

The fabric of existence weaves itself whole.

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