Composers combine notes, that's all.

Invention presupposes imagination but should not be confused with it.

Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning.

The principle of the endless melody is the perpetual becoming of a music that never had any reason for starting, any more than it has any reason for ending.

My music is best understood by children and animals.

In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love?

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