Some people take music too seriously, and some don't take it seriously enough, others take it just right.
If someone says can't, that shows you what to do.
I certainly had no feeling for harmony, and Schoenberg thought that that would make it impossible for me to write music. He said, 'You'll come to a wall you won't be able to get through.' So I said, 'I'll beat my head against that wall.'
The world, the real is not an object. It is a process.
Music is edifying, for from time to time it sets the soul in operation.
The white paintings came first; my silent piece came later.