Music is...the coordination between man and time.

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

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.

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

One's belief that one is sincere is not so dangerous as one's conviction that one is right. We all feel we are right; but we felt the same way twenty years ago and today we know we weren't always right.

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.

The profound meaning of music's essential aim... is to produce a communion, a union of man with his fellow man with the Supreme Being