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

Get yourself out of whatever cage you find yourself in.

Wherever we are, what we hear is mostly noise. When we ignore it, it disturbs us. When we listen to it, we find it fascinating.

I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.

A 'mistake' is beside the point, for once anything happens it authentically is.

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

After I had been studying with him for two years, Schoenberg said, ‘In order to write music, you must have a feeling for harmony.’ I explained to him that I had no feeling for harmony. He then said that I would always encounter an obstacle, that it would be as though I came to a wall through which I could not pass. I said, ‘In that case I will devote my life to beating my head against that wall.’