To continue in one path is to go backward.

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

Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody's piano playing in my living room has on the book I am reading.

There is music wherever there is rhythm, as there is life wherever there beats a pulse.

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.

Music must be listened to; it is not enough to hear it. A duck hears also.

The one true comment on a piece of music is another piece of music.