I cannot now evaluate the events that, at the end of those thirty years, made me discover the necessity of religious belief. I was not reasoned into my disposition. Though I admire the structured thought of theology, it is to religion no more than counterpoint exercises are to music.

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

What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.

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 is the sole domain in which man realizes the present.

The Church knew what the psalmist knew: Music praises God. Music is well or better able to praise him than the building of the church and all its decoration; it is the Church's greatest ornament.

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.