To study music, we must learn the rules. To create music, we must break them.

Without order there can be no inner satisfaction. Without inner satisfaction there can be no freedom. Without freedom there is no joy.

Life is denied by lack of attention, whether it be to cleaning windows or trying to write a masterpiece.

There is nothing boring in life except ourselves.

The history of harmony is the history of the development of the human ear, which has gradually assimilated, in their natural order, the successive intervals of the harmonic series.

Great art likes chains. The greatest artists have created art within bounds. Or else they have created their own chains.

Do nothing for effect. Do it for truth.