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

All music is nothing more than a succession of impulses that converge towards a definite point of repose.

Music's exclusive function is to structure the flow of time and keep order in it.

I knew I had to write a Mass of my own, but a real one.

A cultural snob is someone who claims to be familiar with the incomprehensible.

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

I cannot now evaluate the events that, at the end of those thirty years, made me discover the necessity of religious belief. I was not reasoned into my disposition. Though I admire the structured thought of theology, it is to religion no more than counterpoint exercises are to music.