If you're a good composer, you steal good steals.

A work of art does not answer questions, it provokes them; and its essential meaning is in the tension between the contradictory answers.

I have two answers to everything and one answer to nothing.

I think it is time we learned the lesson of our century: that the progress of the human spirit must keep pace with technological and scientific progress, or that spirit will die. It is incumbent on our educators to remember this; and music is at the top of the spiritual must list. When the study of the arts leads to the adoration of the formula (heaven forbid), we shall be lost. But as long as we insist on maintaining artistic vitality, we are able to hope in man

Our most emotionally active life is lived in our dreams, and our cells renew themselves most industriously in sleep. We reach highest in meditation, and farthest in prayer. In stillness every human being is great; he is free from the experience of hostility; he is a poet, and most like an angel.

It would be nice to hear someone accidentally whistle something of mine, somewhere, just once.

If you're a good composer, you steal good steals.