Music is given to us with the sole purpose of establishing an order in things, including, and particularly, the coordination between man and time.

I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.

I knew I had to write a Mass of my own, but a real one.

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.

A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

The real composer thinks about his work the whole time; he is not always conscious of this, but he is aware of it later when he suddenly knows what he will do.

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.