Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
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 more controlled, limited and tormented art is, the freer it is.
I am an inventor of music.
One has a nose. The nose scents and it chooses. An artist is simply a kind of pig snouting truffles.
Old age is a time of humiliations, the most disagreeable of which, for me, is that I cannot work long at sustained high pressure with no leaks in concentration.