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

The trick is to compose what one wants to compose and to get it commissioned afterward.

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

Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.

My childhood was a period of waiting for the moment when I could send everyone and everything connected with it to hell.

The profound meaning of music's essential aim... is to produce a communion, a union of man with his fellow man with the Supreme Being

The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one