Music is good, not evil. Poetry is good, not evil. Primitive, but oh, so true!

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.

In the long run, any words about music are less important than the music.

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

A great piece of music is beautiful regardless of how it is performed.

Music is a means capable of expressing dark dramatism and pure rapture, suffering and ecstasy, fiery and cold fury, melancholy and wild merriment – and the subtlest nuances and interplay of these feelings which words are powerless to express and which are unattainable in painting and sculpture.

Those who have ears to hear, will hear