"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 am a very shy man. I do not like to talk about myself."

"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…"

"Every time I compose, I think of a fresh way of doing it."

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