I was born out of due time in the sense that by temperament and talent I should have been more suited for the life of a small Bach, living in anonymity and composing regularly for an established service and for God.

Mediocrity borrows, genius steals.

It is my conviction that the public always shows itself more honest in its spontaneity than do those who officially set themselves up as judges of works of art.

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

Why is it that whenever I hear a piece of music I don't like, it's always by Villa Lobos?

Art is the opposite of chaos. Art is organized chaos.

To continue in one path is to go backward.