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

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

I am an inventor of music.

Conductors' careers are made for the most part with 'Romantic' music. 'Classic' music eliminates the conductor; we do not remember him in it.

One has a nose. The nose scents and it chooses. An artist is simply a kind of pig snouting truffles.

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