I Like Being Moved. I Don't Like

If You Develop An Ear For Sounds That Are Musical It Is Like Developing An Ego. You Begin To Refuse Sounds That Are Not Musical And That Way Cut Yourself Off From A Good Deal Of Experience.

One Day When I Was Studying With Schoenberg, He Pointed Out The Eraser On His Pencil And Said, 'this End Is More Important Than The Other.' After Twenty Years I Learned To Write Directly In Ink.

The Responsibility Of The Artist Consists In Perfecting His Work So That It May Become Attractively Disinteresting.

So Somebody Has Talent? So What? Dime A Dozen. And We're Overpopulated. Actually We Have More Food Than We Have People And More Art. We've Gotten To The Point Of Burning Food. When Will We Begin To Burn Our Art?

Some People Take Music Too Seriously, And Some Don't Take It Seriously Enough, Others Take It Just Right.