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.

Don't try to create and analyze at the same time. They're different processes.

Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.

The world is teeming; anything can happen.

In an utter emptiness anything can take place.

Music is a means of rapid transportation.

All great art is a form of complaint