In the olden days, everybody sang. You were expected to sing as well as talk. It was a mark of the cultured man to sing.

Any asshole can write a tone-row. It takes a composer to write a tune.

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

Life without music is unthinkable.

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

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

Life without music is unthinkable. Life without music is academic. That is why my contact with music is a total embrace.