It is not irritating to be where one is. It is only irritating to think one would like to be somewhere else.

Whether I make them or not, there are always sounds to be heard and all of them are excellent.

People who aren't artists often feel that artists are inspired. But if you work at your art you don't have time to be inspired.

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.'

As far as consistency of thought goes, I prefer inconsistency.

Art is sort of an experimental station in which one tries out living.

Now that things are so simple, there's so much to do.