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.

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

I take no pride in my artistic talents; they are God-given and I see absolutely no reason to become puffed up over something that one has received.

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

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.

What force is more potent than love?

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.