“I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.”

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

“Music is the sole domain in which man realizes the present.”

“my childhood was a peroid of waiting to the moment when i could send everyone in it to hell.”

“In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love?”

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

“To continue in one path is to go backward.”