Awards are merely the badges of mediocrity.

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

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

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

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

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.

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