In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love?

Silence will save me from being wrong (and foolish), but it will also deprive me of the possibility of being right.

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.

Vivaldi didn't write 400 concertos; he wrote one concerto 400 times.

My freedom will be so much the greater and more meaningful the more narrowly I limit my field of action and the more I surround myself with obstacles. Whatever diminishes constraint diminishes strength. The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one's self of the chains that shackle the spirit.

I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.

Harpists spend 90 percent of their lives tuning their harps and 10 percent playing out of tune.