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

What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.

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.

The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music they should be taught to love it instead.

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

My music is best understood by children and animals.