I am an inventor of music.

Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody's piano playing in my living room has on the book I am reading.

I am in the present. I cannot know what tomorrow will bring forth. I can know only what the truth is for me today. That is what I am called upon to serve, and I serve it in all lucidity.

A plague on eminence! I hardly dare cross the street anymore without a convoy, and I am stared at wherever I go like an idiot member of a royal family or an animal in a zoo; and zoo animals have been known to die from stares.

Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.

I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.