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

The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music they should be taught to love it instead.

Invention presupposes imagination but should not be confused with it.

Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.

It is the transcendent (or 'abstract' or 'self-contained') nature of music that the new so called concretism--Pop Art, eighteen-hour slices-of-reality films, musique concrete--opposes. But instead of bringing art and reality closer together, the new movement merely thins out the distinction.

The further one separates himself from the precepts of the Christian Church, the further one distances himself from the truth. Only God can create. I make music from music.

Money may kindle, but it cannot by itself, and for very long, burn.