One's belief that one is sincere is not so dangerous as one's conviction that one is right. We all feel we are right; but we felt the same way twenty years ago and today we know we weren't always right.

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

Conformism is so hot on the heels of the mass-produced avant-garde that the 'ins' and the 'outs' change places with the speed of mach 3.

The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music they should be taught to love it instead.

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.

The more controlled, limited and tormented art is, the freer it is.

What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.