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.'

All great art is a form of complaint

Some people take music too seriously, and some don't take it seriously enough, others take it just right.

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

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.

Everything we do is music." (Classical Composer)(From: 4'33")

The Indians long ago knew that music was going on permanently and that hearing it was like looking out a window at a landscape which didn't stop when one turned away.