Does it not occur to people that I might be artificial by nature?
I do not ask for my music to be interpreted, but only for it to be played.
Remember that I wrote a pavane for a dead princess, and not a dead pavane for a princess!
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.
The only love affair I have ever had was with music.