It is a funny thing, but when I am making music, all the answers I seek for in life seem to be there, in the music. Or rather, I should say, when I am making music, there are no questions and no need for answers.

I don't choose what I compose. It chooses me.

Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire.

The impressions of the spriritual experiences gave my future life its form and content.

Tradition is laziness.

The further the music develops, the more complex the apparatus used by the composer to express his thoughts becomes.

You must renounce all superficiality, all convention, all vanity and delusion.