The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one

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

An audience is an abstraction; it has no taste. It must depend on the only person who has (pardon, should have), the conductor.

Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.

The true creator may be recognized by his ability always to find about him, in the commonest and humblest thing, items worthy of note.

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.

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