 To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also. |
| My music is best understood by children and animals. |
| The principle of the endless melody is the perpetual becoming of a music that never had any reason for starting, any more than it has any reason for ending. |
| Why is it that whenever I hear a piece of music I don't like, it's always by Villa-Lobos? |
| In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love? |
| Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal. |
| I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge. |
| I know that the twelve notes in each octave and the variety of rhythm offer me opportunities that all of human genius will never exhaust. |
| Harpists spend 90 percent of their lives tuning their harps and 10 percent playing out of tune. |
