Revolution means turning the wheel.

The more controlled, limited and tormented art is, the freer it is.

Composers combine notes, that's all.

Music is given to us with the sole purpose of establishing an order in things, including, and particularly, the coordination between man and time.

We can neither put back the clock nor slow down our forward speed, and as we are already flying pilotless, on instrument controls, it is even too late to ask where we are going.

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.

Composition is frozen improvisation.