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

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

Look for the music on all things, and life will be a symphony of joy. My music is best understood by children and animals.

An artist is like a pig snouting truffles.

Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.

Music is given to us specifically to make order of things, to move from an anarchic, individualistic state to a regulated, perfectly concious one, which alone insures vitality and durability.

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