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

Is not beauty in music too often confused with something which lets the ears lie back in an easy chair?

I don't write music for sissy ears.

Expression, to a great extent, is a matter of terms, and terms are anyone's. The meaning of 'God' may have a billion interpretations if there be that many souls in the world

It is conceivable that what is unified form to the author or composer may of necessity be formless to his audience.

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

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.