We are not committed to this or that. We are committed to the nothing in-between, whether we know it or not.
To accept whatever comes, regardless of the consequences, is to be unafraid.
One day when I was studying with Schoenberg, he pointed out the eraser on his pencil and said, 'This end is more important than the other.' After twenty years I learned to write directly in ink.
There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing.
When we separate music from life we get is art.
Music is edifying, for from time to time it sets the soul in operation.