Good composers don't borrow, they steal

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.

We cannot describe sound, but we cannot forget it either.

Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning.

Why is it that whenever I hear a piece of music I don't like, it's always by Villa Lobos?

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.

Hurry? I have no time to hurry.