The art of translation lies less in knowing the other language than in knowing your own.

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

There are no fascinating people, only their works are fascinating.

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

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

An artist doesn't necessarily have deeper feelings than other people, but he can express these feelings. He is like everyone else-only more so! He speaks with a Formal Sigh.

The hardest of all the arts to speak of is music, because music has no meaning to speak of