I'm not interested in having an orchestra sound like itself. I want it to sound like the composer.

I can't live one day without hearing music, playing it , studying it , or thinking about it .

From New Year's on the outlook brightens; good humor lost in a mood of failure returns. I resolve to stop complaining.

Even experimental composers, revolutionary composers, self-styled radicals are, in writing revolutionary music, recognizing the music that preceded them precisely by trying to avoid it.

Success is all very well as long as you don't inhale.

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

A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, and a bright, infinite future.