Market value is irrelevant to intrinsic value. ... Unqualified judgment can at most claim to decide the market-value - a value that can be in inverse proportion to the intrinsic value.

If it is art, it is not for all, and if it is for all, it is not art.

Music is only understood when one goes away singing it and only loved when one falls asleep with it in one's head, and finds it still there on waking up the next morning.

There is still plenty of good music to be written in C major.

I find above all that the expression, atonal music, is most unfortunate — it is on a par with calling flying the art of not falling, or swimming the art of not drowning.

My music is not modern, it is merely badly played

My work should be judged as it enters the ears and heads of listeners, not as it is described to the eyes of readers.

I am the slave of an internal power more powerful than my education.

Composing is a slowed-down improvisation; often one cannot write fast enough to keep up with the stream of ideas.

If music is frozen architecture, then the potpourri is frozen coffee-table gossip... Potpourri is the art of adding apples to pears.

You cannot expect the Form before the Idea,For they will come into being together.

Quote words that affirmall men and women are yourbrothers and sisters.

I learned to play the instruments of war, " he said, "and paint in blood.

It's what the loss uncovers in you that brings on despair, not the loss itself.

True friends celebrate your success and share your grief!

My preference is for prose with more silence in it, language that contains more pockets of strangeness.

To have a film in America means precisely nothing if you don't have a distributor who stands behind it.

Women have more to prove than men when it comes to politics.

I feel like you can be the best role model by being yourself.

Los Angeles, I don't like that town. Too decadent, and it's slimy.

Death was just the beginning of a journey that everyone took at some point.