There will always be critics eager to fashion opinions for the lazy and incapable.

If my work is accepted, I must move on to the point where it is not.

One need not fear for the future of music.

I like being moved. I don't like being pushed.

I was shocked at college to see one hundred of my classmates in the library all reading copies of the same book. Instead of doing as they did, I went into the stacks and read the first book written by an author whose name began with Z. I received the highest grade in the class. That convinced me that the institution was not being run correctly. I left.

When you make music you are acting as a philosopher. You can either do that consciously or you can do it unconsciously, but you're doing it.

The emotions - love, mirth, the heroic, wonder, tranquility, fear, anger, sorrow, disgust - are in the audience.