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.

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

To accept whatever comes, regardless of the consequences, is to be unafraid.

The material of music is sound and silence. Integrating these is composing.

If this word "music" is sacred and reserved for eighteenth and nineteenth century instruments, we can substitute a more meaningful term: organization of sound.

I want to change my way of seeing, NOT my way of feeling. I was perfectly happy about my feelings.

When I went to the analyst for a kind of preliminary meeting, he said, 'I'll be able to fix you so that you'll write much more music than you do now.' I said, 'Good heavens! I already write too much, it seems to me.' That promise of his put me off.