I live neither in the past nor in the future. I am in the present. I cannot know what tomorrow will bring forth. I can know only what the truth is for me today. That is what I am called upon to serve, and I serve it in all lucidity.

What force is more potent than love?

There is music wherever there is rhythm, as there is life wherever there beats a pulse.

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

Harpists spend 90 percent of their lives tuning their harps and 10 percent playing out of tune.

I take no pride in my artistic talents; they are God-given and I see absolutely no reason to become puffed up over something that one has received.

I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.