"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."

"Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end."

"I have spent my life trying to escape the 'isms' of music."

"I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge."

"The artist is a vessel for the divine."