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

The real composer thinks about his work the whole time; he is not always conscious of this, but he is aware of it later when he suddenly knows what he will do.

I never understood the need for a "live" audience. My music, because of its extreme quietude, would be happiest with a dead one.

Why is it that whenever I hear a piece of music I don't like, it's always by Villa Lobos?

A cultural snob is someone who claims to be familiar with the incomprehensible.

Hurry? I have no time to hurry.

Revolution means turning the wheel.