The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one
The one true comment on a piece of music is another piece of music.
Nothing is likely about masterpieces, least of all whether there will be any.
Music's exclusive function is to structure the flow of time and keep order in it.
Old age is a time of humiliations, the most disagreeable of which, for me, is that I cannot work long at sustained high pressure with no leaks in concentration.
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.