Composing is a slowed-down improvisation; often one cannot write fast enough to keep up with the stream of ideas.

If it is art, it is not for all, and if it is for all, it is not art.

Music is only understood when one goes away singing it and only loved when one falls asleep with it in one's head, and finds it still there on waking up the next morning.

There is still plenty of good music to be written in C major.

I find above all that the expression, atonal music, is most unfortunate — it is on a par with calling flying the art of not falling, or swimming the art of not drowning.

My music is not modern, it is merely badly played

My work should be judged as it enters the ears and heads of listeners, not as it is described to the eyes of readers.

I am the slave of an internal power more powerful than my education.

If music is frozen architecture, then the potpourri is frozen coffee-table gossip... Potpourri is the art of adding apples to pears.

You cannot expect the Form before the Idea,For they will come into being together.

My music is not lovely.

Love, Mercy, and Grace, sisters all, attend your wounds of silence and hope.

The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.

Get the inside right, and the outside will take care of itself.

The future of dance will always be tied up with the public's acceptance of the star. If they accept the star, then they'll accept the dance.

Imagination makes you see all sorts of things.

A man who is more concerned with being a good man than being good at being a man makes a very well-behaved slave.

When drum'n'bass happened, when the two-step/garage thing happened, there was a chart smash every week; it operated on the underground and the pinnacle of pop mainstream at the same time.

People are pretty respectful for the most part.

I have no ambition to shine beyond my abilities.

Only God knows You’re talking to him now.