There can be nothing exclusive about substantial art. It comes directly out of the heart of the experience of life and thinking about life and living life.

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

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

The word 'beauty' is as easy to use as the word 'degenerate.' Both come in handy when one does or does not agree with you

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?

I don't write music for sissy ears.

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