An audience is an abstraction; it has no taste. It must depend on the only person who has (pardon, should have), the conductor.

Music is given to us specifically to make order of things, to move from an anarchic, individualistic state to a regulated, perfectly concious one, which alone insures vitality and durability.

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.

My freedom will be so much the greater and more meaningful the more narrowly I limit my field of action and the more I surround myself with obstacles. Whatever diminishes constraint diminishes strength. The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one's self of the chains that shackle the spirit.

I knew I had to write a Mass of my own, but a real one.

Music is...the coordination between man and time.

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