I never am sea sick, never. I am sea drunk!

Harpists spend 90 percent of their lives tuning their harps and 10 percent playing out of tune.

To continue in one path is to go backward.

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

The trick is to compose what one wants to compose and to get it commissioned afterward.

The one true comment on a piece of music is another piece of music.

Composition is frozen improvisation.