Our business is rejoicing, our business is rejoicing.

Every piece of music is a form of personal expression for its creator...If a work doesnt express the composers own personal point of view, his own ideas, then it doesnt, in my opinion, even deserve to be born.

If they cut off both hands, I will compose music anyway holding the pen in my teeth.

The majority of my symphonies are tombstones.

The best way to hold on to something is to pay no attention to it. The things you love too much perish. You have to treat everything with irony, especially the things you hold dear. There's more of a chance then that they'll survive.

A creative artist works on his next composition because he was not satisfied with his previous one.

Those who have ears to hear, will hear