Composers combine notes, that's all.

Good composers don't borrow, they steal

Silence, which will save from shame, will also deprive me of fame.

We cannot describe sound, but we cannot forget it either.

My childhood was a period of waiting for the moment when I could send everyone and everything connected with it to hell.

The real composer thinks about his work the whole time; he is not always conscious of this, but he is aware of it later when he suddenly knows what he will do.

One has a nose. The nose scents and it chooses. An artist is simply a kind of pig snouting truffles.