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

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

Revolution means turning the wheel.

I remember being handed a score composed by Mozart at the age of eleven. What could I say? I felt like de Kooning, who was asked to comment on a certain abstract painting, and answered in the negative. He was then told it was the work of a celebrated monkey. 'That's different. For a monkey, it's terrific'.

I am an inventor of music.

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.

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