The last thing is simplicity. After having gone through all the difficulties, having played an endless number of notes, it is simplicity that matters, with all its charm. It is the final seal on Art. Anyone who strives for this to begin with will be disappointed. You cannot begin at the end.

To be a great composer requires immense experience... One acquires this by listening not only to other men's work, but above all to one's own!

A long time ago I decided that my universe will be the soul and heart of man.

Here, whatever is not boring is not English.

Nothing is more beautiful than the sound of the guitar.

I feel like a novice, just as I felt before I knew anything of the keyboard. It is far too original, and I shall end up not being able to learn it myself.

All the same it is being said everywhere that I played too softly, or rather, too delicately for people used to the piano-pounding of the artists here.