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

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

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

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

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

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

“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.”