We can neither put back the clock nor slow down our forward speed, and as we are already flying pilotless, on instrument controls, it is even too late to ask where we are going.

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

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.

Look for the music on all things, and life will be a symphony of joy. My music is best understood by children and animals.

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.

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

An artist is like a pig snouting truffles.