I did my work slowly, drop by drop. I tore it out of me by pieces.
We should always remember that sensitiveness and emotion constitute the real content of a work of art
Does it not occur to people that I might be artificial by nature?
Why become a second-rate Ravel when you're already a first-rate Gershwin?
I am not one of the great composers. All the great have produced enormously. There is everything in their work - the best and the worst, but there is always quantity. But I have written relatively little.
The only love affair I have ever had was with music.