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 haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.

I wonder if memory is true, and I know that it cannot be, but that one lives by memory nevertheless and not by truth.

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.

A composer is not only an architect but also an inventor, and he should not build houses in which he cannot live.