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.
Silence, which will save from shame, will also deprive me of fame.
An artist is like a pig snouting truffles.
To continue in one path is to go backward.
Music's exclusive function is to structure the flow of time and keep order in it.
A cultural snob is someone who claims to be familiar with the incomprehensible.