Good composers don't borrow, they steal

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

My childhood was a period of waiting for the moment when I could send everyone and everything connected with it to hell.

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

Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.

An audience is an abstraction; it has no taste. It must depend on the only person who has (pardon, should have), the conductor.

The profound meaning of music's essential aim... is to produce a communion, a union of man with his fellow man with the Supreme Being