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

It is the transcendent (or 'abstract' or 'self-contained') nature of music that the new so called concretism--Pop Art, eighteen-hour slices-of-reality films, musique concrete--opposes. But instead of bringing art and reality closer together, the new movement merely thins out the distinction.

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

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

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

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.

I am an inventor of music.