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

Mediocrity borrows, genius steals.

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

There is music wherever there is rhythm, as there is life wherever there beats a pulse.

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.

Music is, by its very nature, essentially powerless to express anything at all. Music expresses itself.

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