Those who have ears to hear, will hear

When a man is in despair, it means that he still believes in something.

Real music is always revolutionary, for it cements the ranks of the people; it arouses them and leads them onward.

If they cut off both hands, I will compose music anyway holding the pen in my teeth.

I write music, it’s performed. After all, my music says it all. It doesn’t need historical and hysterical commentaries. In the long run, any words about music are less important than the music.

A creative artist works on his next composition because he was not satisfied with his previous one.

In the long run, any words about music are less important than the music.

What you have in your head, put down on paper. The head is a fragile vessel.

I feel eternal pain for those who were killed by Hitler, but I feel no less pain for those killed on Stalin's orders. I suffer for everyone who was tortured, shot, or starved to death.

It's about the people, who have stopped believing because the cup of evil has run over.

The most uninteresting part of the biography of a composer is his childhood. All those preludes are the same and the reader hurries on to the fugue.

Let me get lost in your heart so that I may find myself in the mirror of your mind.

An avalanche starts with one pebble. A forest with one seed. And it takes one word to make the whole world stop and listen. All you need is the right one.

Jack Aubrey is a tremendous tower of strength and you always want to read about him.

It's the only thing that keeps me going these days, travelling. Changes of scene, changes of faces

Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.

I write in order to belong.

The Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame was a great idea when it started, but I think they ought to close it, I think it's full.

Just then Neville caused a slight diversion by turning into a large canary.

You talk to your enemies, not just your friends.

Humans were denied the speech of animals. The only common ground of communication upon which dogs and men can get together is in fiction.