Ours is a big country and we are a people possessing a multitude of different origins. If composers will increasingly strive to perfect themselves in the art of music and will follow only paths of expression that would seem to take them the true way, the matter of a national school will take care of itself.

I met with great producers and composers, young people that wanted to give it all in their art, ... We were risking, we were daring to go places that we never went in music and because of it, I think there's a lot of spontaneity. We weren't doing music following any rules. I wanted to start from zero, as if it were the first album that I was recording, so I could present a new sound.

every man has a map in his heart of his own country and that the heart will never allow you to forget this map. (p. 18)

Most of the important composers in our country are clustered in the Northeast.

Too many composers become involved in intellectual speculation which seems to matter more to them than the sound that comes out of all this speculation.

Composers should write tunes that chauffeurs and errand boys can whistle.