Art is the opposite of chaos. Art is organized chaos.

In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love?

Conformism is so hot on the heels of the mass-produced avant-garde that the 'ins' and the 'outs' change places with the speed of mach 3.

To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.

I take no pride in my artistic talents; they are God-given and I see absolutely no reason to become puffed up over something that one has received.

Hurry? I have no time to hurry.

I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.