A cultural snob is someone who claims to be familiar with the incomprehensible.

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.

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

Music is, by its very nature, essentially powerless to express anything at all. Music expresses itself.

I had another dream the other day about music critics. They were small and rodent-like with padlocked ears, as if they had stepped out of a painting by Goya.

Art postulates communion, and the artist has an imperative need to make others share the joy which he experiences himself.

An artist is like a pig snouting truffles.