The modern composer is a madman who persists in manufacturing an article which nobody wants.

The public doesn't want new music; the main thing it demands of a composer is that he be dead.

Composing is not a profession. It is a maniaa harmless madness.

The first requirement for a composer is to be dead.

I have always loved locomotives passionately. For me they are living creatures and I love them as others love women or horses.

Music is geometry in time.

The public doesn't want new music the main thing that it demands of a composer is that he be dead.

The animated cartoon has a lot to teach the writer, above all how to define characters and objects with a few strokes.

Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.

Charity never humiliated him who profited from it, nor ever bound him by the chains of gratitude, since it was not to him but to God that the gift was made.

I wake up at about the same time every day. I sleep well and wake without an alarm clock.

A horse's eye disquiets me: it has an expression of alarm that may at any moment be translated into action.

We are not all equal, nor can we be so.

I love pitching in front of big crowds and in huge stadiums.

Surviving is much more painful than death.

Playing my drums is therapy.

Every child is born blessed with a vivid imagination. But just as a muscle grows flabby with disuse, so the bright imagination of a child pales in later years if he ceases to exercise it.