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 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

Theirs [the Beatles] is a happy, cocky, belligerently resourceless brand of harmonic primitivism... In the Liverpudlian repertoire, the indulged amateurishness of the musical material, though closely rivaled by the indifference of the performing style, is actually surpassed only by the ineptitude of the studio production method. (Strawberry Fields suggests a chance encounter at a mountain wedding between Claudio Monteverdi and a jug band.)

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

A record is a concert without halls and a museum whose curator is the owner.