"I have a predilection for composing in bedrooms."

"I am a very curious man. I always want to learn new things."

"I have always been a lonely man. I have always been a solitary man. I have always been a man who has lived in his own world."

"For I consider that music is, by its very nature, essentially powerless to express anything at all, whether a feeling, an attitude of mind, a psychological mood, a phenomenon of nature, etc. Expressio…"

"I come to Italy [1935] not only to make music, but also to be in a country that is moving forward vigorously, that affirms itself ever more rigorously, in which one sees everywhere the imprint, and on…"