Rests always sound well.

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.

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

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.

Kil your positive attitudes and you'll kill your chances of succeeding in life.

The things most worth wanting are not available everywhere all the time.

I never dreamt, in my dream, I'm Dalai Lama.

No compression or as little as possible - that's how you get a good recording.

Don't call the man a claustrophobe just because small spaces scare him. Right.

My wife is Mexican and my constituency is very, very multicultural.

The Internet is the wrong direction for music.

Conversation is a catalyst for innovation

I guess you could say I'm cautious, or a coward.

Faith is acting like God is telling the truth.