Why become a second-rate Ravel when you're already a first-rate Gershwin?
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
If he'd been making shell-cases during the war it might have been better for music.
Music, I feel, must be emotional first and intellectual second.
I do not ask for my music to be interpreted, but only for it to be played.