Inspiration and ideas only come to me when I have not had a woman in a very long time... Ballads, polonaises, even a whole concerto may have been lost forever up your des durka, I can't tell you how many. I have been so deeply engulfed in my love for you I have hardly created anything.

Art is the most beautiful deception of all!

I love music passionately. And because I love it I try to free it from barren traditions that stifle it.

Extreme complication is contrary to art.

People come to music to seek oblivion: is that not also a form of deception?

Works of art make rules but rules do not make works of art.

Do not allow the accents in the brass to produce space between the notes.