"Why is it that whenever I hear a piece of music I don't like, it's always by Villa Lobos?"

"Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal."

"To be deprived of art and left alone with philosophy is to be close to Hell."

"I am not a theorist. I am a practitioner."

"What I cannot follow are the manic-depressive fluctuations from total control to no control, from the serialization of all elements to chance."