A composer is not only an architect but also an inventor, and he should not build houses in which he cannot live.

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

I live neither in the past nor in the future. I am in the present. I cannot know what tomorrow will bring forth. I can know only what the truth is for me today. That is what I am called upon to serve, and I serve it in all lucidity.

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

Music is given to us with the sole purpose of establishing an order in things, including, and particularly, the coordination between man and time.

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.

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