A full cup of wine at the right time is worth more than all the kingdoms of this earth!
I don't choose what I compose. It chooses me.
I beg of you... never assume an inner or an outer pose, never a disguise.
Melodic invention is one of the surest signs of a divine gift.
If you think you're boring your audience, go slower not faster.
You must renounce all superficiality, all convention, all vanity and delusion.