So long as the human spirit thrives on this planet, music in some living form will accompany and sustain it and give it expressive meaning.
Music that is born complex is not inherently better or worse than music that is born simple. 
The greatest moments of the human spirit may be deduced from the greatest moments in music.
I adore extravagance but I abhor waste.
The main thing is to be satisfied with your work yourself. It's useless to have an audience happy if you are not happy.
If a literary man puts together two words about music, one of them will be wrong. 
A great symphony is a man-made Mississippi down which we irresistibly flow from the instant of our leave-taking to a long forseen destination. 
A melody is not merely something you can hum. 
If you want to know about the Sixties, play the music of The Beatles. 
Listening to the Fifth Symphony of Ralph Vaughan Williams is like staring at a cow for 45 minutes. 
To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable. 
Someone once asked me ... whether I waited for inspiration. My answer was: "Every day!" 