Money may kindle, but it cannot by itself, and for very long, burn.

The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one

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

I live neither in the past nor in the future. I am in the present. I cannot know what tomorrow will bring forth. I can know only what the truth is for me today. That is what I am called upon to serve, and I serve it in all lucidity.

Composition is frozen improvisation.

The one true comment on a piece of music is another piece of music.

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