There is music wherever there is rhythm, as there is life wherever there beats a pulse.

To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.

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.

I never understood the need for a "live" audience. My music, because of its extreme quietude, would be happiest with a dead one.

I was born out of due time in the sense that by temperament and talent I should have been more suited for the life of a small Bach, living in anonymity and composing regularly for an established service and for God.

All music is nothing more than a succession of impulses that converge towards a definite point of repose.

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.