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.

Discord occasions a momentary distress to the ear, which remains unsatisfied, and even uneasy, until it hears something better. I am convinced...that provided the ear be at length made amends, there are few dissonances too strong for it. Disharmony, to paraphrase Bergson's statement about disorder, is simply a harmony to which many are unaccustomed.

Music is a means of rapid transportation.

Look at everything. Don't close your eyes to the world around you. Look and become curious and interested in what there is to see.

If you develop an ear for sounds that are musical it is like developing an ego. You begin to refuse sounds that are not musical and that way cut yourself off from a good deal of experience.

A finished work is exactly that, requires resurrection.

Why do you not do as I do? Letting go of your thoughts as though they were the cold ashes of a long dead fire?