A musical profit outweighs a financial loss.

My biggest kick in music -playing or writing- is when I have a problem. Without a problem to solve, how much interest do you take in anything?

New music? Hell, there's been no new music since Stravinsky.

Create, and be true to yourself, and depend only on your own good taste.

Love is indescribable and unconditional. I could tell you a thousand things that it is not, but not one that it is. Either you have it or you haven't; there's no proof of it.

I don't need time. What I need is a deadline!

There are two kinds of worries - those you can do something about and those you can't. Don't spend any time on the latter.