One has a nose. The nose scents and it chooses. An artist is simply a kind of pig snouting truffles.

The further one separates himself from the precepts of the Christian Church, the further one distances himself from the truth. Only God can create. I make music from music.

Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

It's one of nature's way that we often feel closer to distant generations than to the generation immediately preceding us.

To be deprived of art and left alone with philosophy is to be close to Hell.

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

Composition is frozen improvisation.