Football is the ballet of the masses.

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.

The majority of my symphonies are tombstones.

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.

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

What you have in your head, put down on paper. The head is a fragile vessel.