An entire composition written in jazz could not live.

Jazz is one of the best things that you can find in your life, it can always be your friend.

A skyscraper is at the same time a triumph of the machine and a tremendous emotional experience, almost breath-taking. Not merely its height but its mass and proportions are the result of an emotion, as well as of calculation.

All great composers of the past spent most of their time studying. Feeling alone won't do the job. A man also needs technique.

What the hell do you want to work for somebody else for? Work for yourself!

Why should I limit myself to only one woman when I can have as many women as I want?

Not many composers have ideas. Far more of them know how to use strange instruments which do not require ideas.