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

People who aren't artists often feel that artists are inspired. But if you work at your art you don't have time to be inspired.

When I went to the analyst for a kind of preliminary meeting, he said, 'I'll be able to fix you so that you'll write much more music than you do now.' I said, 'Good heavens! I already write too much, it seems to me.' That promise of his put me off.

I am trying to check my habits of seeing, to counter them for the sake of greater freshness. I am trying to be unfamiliar with what I'm doing.

Everything you do is music, and everywhere is the best seat.

Ideas are one thing and what happens is another.

We need not destroy the past. It is gone.