My moods are inversely related to the clarity of the sky.

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

The purpose of art is the lifelong construction of a state of wonder.

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.

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

If an artist wants to use his mind for creative work, cutting oneself off from society is a necessary thing

Mozart died too late rather than too soon.