My favourite music is the music I haven't yet heard. I don't hear the music I write: I write in order to hear the music I haven't yet heard.

An artist conscientiously moves in a direction which for some good reason he takes, putting one work in front of the other with the hope he'll arrive before death overtakes him.

Combine nursing homes with nursery schools. Bring very old and very young together: they interest one another.

There is no such thing as an empty space or an empty time. There is always something to see, something to hear. In fact, try as we may to make a silence, we cannot.

With just one musician, you can really do an unlimited number of things on the inside of the piano, if you have at your disposal an exploded keyboard.

Be happy whenever you can manage it. Enjoy yourself. It's lighter than you think.

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.