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

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

Music's exclusive function is to structure the flow of time and keep order in it.

Art is the opposite of chaos. Art is organized chaos.

My God, so much I like to drink Scotch that sometimes I think my name is Igor Stra-whiskey.

We have a duty towards music; namely to invent it. ...Invention presupposes imagination but should not be confused with it. For the act of invention implies the necessity of a lucky find and of achieving realization of this find. What we imagine does not necessarily take on concrete form and may remain in a state of virtuality; whereas invention is not conceivable apart from its actually being worked out.

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.