It's one of nature's way that we often feel closer to distant generations than to the generation immediately preceding us.

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.

Look for the music on all things, and life will be a symphony of joy. My music is best understood by children and animals.

I never understood the need for a "live" audience. My music, because of its extreme quietude, would be happiest with a dead one.

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.

We cannot describe sound, but we cannot forget it either.

The past slips from our grasp. It leaves us only scattered things. The bond that united them eludes us. Our imagination usually fills in the void by making use of preconceived theories...Archaeology, then, does not supply us with certitudes, but rather with vague hypotheses. And in the shade of these hypotheses some artists are content to dream, considering them less as scientific facts than as sources of inspiration.