Silence will save me from being wrong (and foolish), but it will also deprive me of the possibility of being right.

Music's exclusive function is to structure the flow of time and keep order in it.

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.

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

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

To continue in one path is to go backward.

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.