When I discovered that I had been made custodian of this gift, in my earliest childhood, I pledged myself to God to be worthy of it, but I have received uncovenanted mercies all my life. The custodian has too often kept faith on his all-too-worldly terms.

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.

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

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.

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

Music's exclusive function is to structure the flow of time and keep order in it.

Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?