"To continue on one path is to go backward."

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

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

"I was not a 'revolutionary' in the sense of a man with a message. The only thing I was aware of was that I was doing my work, and that it was a question of going forward."

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