Music is the sole domain in which man realizes the present.

I know that the twelve notes in each octave and the variety of rhythm offer me opportunities that all of human genius will never exhaust.

When I discovered that I had been made custodian of this gift, in my earliest childhood, I pledged myself to God to be worthy of it, but I have received uncovenanted mercies all my life. The custodian has too often kept faith on his all-too-worldly terms.

Art is the opposite of chaos. Art is organized chaos.

Music is the sole domain in which man realizes the present.

A composer is not only an architect but also an inventor, and he should not build houses in which he cannot live.

One has a nose. The nose scents and it chooses. An artist is simply a kind of pig snouting truffles.