Hurry! I never hurry. I have no time to hurry. - Responding to his publisher's request that he hurry his completion of a composition.

I was born out of due time in the sense that by temperament and talent I should have been more suited for the life of a small Bach, living in anonymity and composing regularly for an established service and for God.

I was born out of due time in the sense that by temperament and talent I should have been more suited for the life of a small Bach, living in anonymity and composing regularly for an established service and for God

Music is given to us with the sole purpose of establishing an order in things, including, and particularly, the coordination between man and time.

The real composer thinks about his work the whole time; he is not always conscious of this, but he is aware of it later when he suddenly knows what he will do.

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.