To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.

Music must be listened to; it is not enough to hear it. A duck hears also.

I live neither in the past nor in the future. I am in the present. I cannot know what tomorrow will bring forth. I can know only what the truth is for me today. That is what I am called upon to serve, and I serve it in all lucidity.

I am an inventor of music.

The Church knew what the psalmist knew: Music praises God. Music is well or better able to praise him than the building of the church and all its decoration; it is the Church's greatest ornament.

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.

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.