I detest audiences - not in their individual components, but en masse I detest audiences. I think they're a force of evil. It seems to me rule of mob law.

The final, unfinished fugue from The Art of Fugue is the greatest piece of music ever composed.

I don't approve of people who watch television, but I am one of them.

One does not play the piano with one's fingers, one plays the piano with one's mind.

The nature of the contrapuntal experience is that every note has to have a past and a future on the horizontal plane.

I don't know what the effective ratio would be, but I've always had some sort of intuition that for every hour you spend in the company of other human beings, you need "x" number of hours alone. Now, what "x" represents I don't really know; it might be two and seven-eighths or seven and two-eighths, but it is a substantial ratio.

I detest audiences - not in their individual components, but en masse I detest audiences. I think they're a force of evil. It seems to me rule of mob law.