We have a duty towards music; namely to invent it. ...Invention presupposes imagination but should not be confused with it. For the act of invention implies the necessity of a lucky find and of achieving realization of this find. What we imagine does not necessarily take on concrete form and may remain in a state of virtuality; whereas invention is not conceivable apart from its actually being worked out.

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

Music is the sole domain in which man realizes the present.

I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.

We have a duty towards music, namely, to invent it.

To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.

Nothing is likely about masterpieces, least of all whether there will be any.