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

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

Art means to dare - and to have been right.

If a composer could state in words what being a composer means, he would no longer need to be a composer.

Greatness is not the effect of which inspiration is the cause. We are all inspired, but we are all not great.

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

Humor is the ability to see three sides to one coin.