Don't bother looking at the view - I have already composed it.
It should be one’s sole endeavor to see everything afresh and create it anew.
Discipline, work. Work, discipline.
In its beginnings, music was merely chamber music, meant to be listened to in a small space by a small audience.
To write a symphony is, for me, to construct a world.
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.