Vivaldi didn't write 400 concertos; he wrote one concerto 400 times.

I never am sea sick, never. I am sea drunk!

One has a nose. The nose scents and it chooses. An artist is simply a kind of pig snouting truffles.

Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning.

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.

The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one

Composition is frozen improvisation.