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.

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

Composers combine notes, that's all.

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

Revolution means turning the wheel.

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

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.