To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also..

One's belief that one is sincere is not so dangerous as one's conviction that one is right. We all feel we are right; but we felt the same way twenty….

One has a nose. The nose scents and it chooses. An artist is simply a kind of pig snouting truffles..

The past slips from our grasp. It leaves us only scattered things. The bond that united them eludes us. Our imagination usually fills in the void by ….

Money may kindle, but it cannot by itself, and for very long, burn..

Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end..

Music is given to us specifically to make order of things, to move from an anarchic, individualistic state to a regulated, perfectly concious one, wh….

I know that the twelve notes in each octave and the variety of rhythm offer me opportunities that all of human genius will never exhaust..

I live neither in the past nor in the future. I am in the present. I cannot know what tomorrow will bring forth. I can know only what the truth is fo….

A composer is not only an architect but also an inventor, and he should not build houses in which he cannot live..

We cannot describe sound, but we cannot forget it either..

I never am sea sick, never. I am sea drunk!.

Consonance, says the dictionary, is the combination of several tones into a harmonic unit. Dissonance results from the deranging of this harmony by t….

The trick is to compose what one wants to compose and to get it commissioned afterward..

The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one.

We have a duty towards music; namely to invent it. ...Invention presupposes imagination but should not be confused with it. For the act of inventio….

It's one of nature's way that we often feel closer to distant generations than to the generation immediately preceding us..

Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody's piano playing in my living room has on the book I am reading..

Invention presupposes imagination but should not be confused with it..

Composition is frozen improvisation..

What force is more potent than love?.