The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music they should be taught to love it instead.

Music is the sole domain in which man realizes the present.

I am an inventor of music.

I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.

An artist is like a pig snouting truffles.

The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one

I was born out of due time in the sense that by temperament and talent I should have been more suited for the life of a small Bach, living in anonymity and composing regularly for an established service and for God.