Invention presupposes imagination but should not be confused with it.

Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody's piano playing in my living room has on the book I am reading.

Why is it that whenever I hear a piece of music I don't like, it's always by Villa Lobos?

All you have to do is close your eyes and wait for the symbols.

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

I wonder if memory is true, and I know that it cannot be, but that one lives by memory nevertheless and not by truth.

Music must be listened to; it is not enough to hear it. A duck hears also.