It is the transcendent (or 'abstract' or 'self-contained') nature of music that the new so called concretism--Pop Art, eighteen-hour slices-of-reality films, musique concrete--opposes. But instead of bringing art and reality closer together, the new movement merely thins out the distinction.

It's one of nature's way that we often feel closer to distant generations than to the generation immediately preceding us.

I cannot now evaluate the events that, at the end of those thirty years, made me discover the necessity of religious belief. I was not reasoned into my disposition. Though I admire the structured thought of theology, it is to religion no more than counterpoint exercises are to music.

Good composers don't borrow, they steal

My music is best understood by children and animals.

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

Invention presupposes imagination but should not be confused with it.