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

What I cannot follow are the manic-depressive fluctuations from total control to no control, from the serialization of all elements to chance.

The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one

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

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.

One's belief that one is sincere is not so dangerous as one's conviction that one is right. We all feel we are right; but we felt the same way twenty years ago and today we know we weren't always right.