The further one separates himself from the precepts of the Christian Church, the further one distances himself from the truth. Only God can create. I make music from music.

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.

Art postulates communion, and the artist has an imperative need to make others share the joy which he experiences himself.

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.

Silence, which will save from shame, will also deprive me of fame.

Silence will save me from being wrong (and foolish), but it will also deprive me of the possibility of being right.

To be deprived of art and left alone with philosophy is to be close to Hell.