The performance of performance has developed to such an extent in recent years that it challenges the music itself and will soon threaten it with relegation.

I cannot now evaluate the events that, at the end of those thirty years, made me discover the necessity of religious belief. I was not reasoned into my disposition. Though I admire the structured thought of theology, it is to religion no more than counterpoint exercises are to music.

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

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.

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

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

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