I am an inventor of music.

A composer is not only an architect but also an inventor, and he should not build houses in which he cannot live.

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

There is music wherever there is rhythm, as there is life wherever there beats a pulse.

Harpists spend 90 percent of their lives tuning their harps and 10 percent playing out of tune.

Invention presupposes imagination but should not be confused with it.

Music must be listened to; it is not enough to hear it. A duck hears also.