The same piece of music alters at each hearing. But oh, the need to repeat and repeat and repeat unchanged the sexual experience.

Intelligence is silence, truth is being invisible. But what a racket I make in declaring this.

composition is notation of distortion of what composers think they've heard before. Masterpieces are marvelous misquotations.

Nothing is a waste that makes a memory.

Arguably, no artist grows up: If he sheds the perceptions of childhood, he ceases being an artist.

All men are forced into one of two categories: those with eleven fingers and those without.

Inspiration could be called inhaling the memory of an act never experienced.