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

“Silence will save me from being wrong (and foolish), but it will also deprive me of the possibility of being right.”

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

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

“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.”