No statue has ever been put up to a critic.

No statue has ever been put up to a critic.

Music is on a higher plane than everything else in this world.

All the doctors who wanted to forbid me to smoke and to drink are dead.

Whereas most other modern composers are engaged in manufacturing cocktails of every hue and description, I offer the public cold spring water.

If I could express the same thing with words as with music, I would, of course, use a verbal expression. Music is something autonomous and much richer. Music begins where the possibilities of language end. That is why I write music.

Millions of years ago, in my previous incarnations, I must have been related to swans... because I can still feel that affinity.