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.

I knew I had to write a Mass of my own, but a real one.

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

Music is given to us specifically to make order of things, to move from an anarchic, individualistic state to a regulated, perfectly concious one, which alone insures vitality and durability.

Composers combine notes, that's all.

The profound meaning of music's essential aim... is to produce a communion, a union of man with his fellow man with the Supreme Being

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.