Whereas most other modern composers are engaged in manufacturing cocktails of every hue and description, I offer the public cold spring water.
Music is on a higher plane than everything else in this world.
For an instant God opens his door and His orchestra plays the Fifth Symphony.
Music begins where the possibilities of language end.
No one ever erected a statue of a critic.
Music is, for me, like a beautiful mosaic which God has put together. He takes all the pieces in his hand, throws them into the world, and we have to recreate the picture from the pieces.