Music is, by its very nature, essentially powerless to express anything at all. Music expresses itself.

To continue in one path is to go backward.

It is my conviction that the public always shows itself more honest in its spontaneity than do those who officially set themselves up as judges of works of art.

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

All you have to do is close your eyes and wait for the symbols.

In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love?

Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody's piano playing in my living room has on the book I am reading.