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
The trick is to compose what one wants to compose and to get it commissioned afterward.
Composition is frozen improvisation.
The one true comment on a piece of music is another piece of music.
I am an inventor of music.
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.