All you have to do is close your eyes and wait for the symbols.

Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.

A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

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

The principle of the endless melody is the perpetual becoming of a music that never had any reason for starting, any more than it has any reason for ending.

Conformism is so hot on the heels of the mass-produced avant-garde that the 'ins' and the 'outs' change places with the speed of mach 3.

I had another dream the other day about music critics. They were small and rodent-like with padlocked ears, as if they had stepped out of a painting by Goya.