'What you have in your head, put it down on paper. The head is a fragile vessel.'

'I write music, it's performed. After all, my music says it all. It doesn't need historical and hysterical commentaries. In the long run, any words about music…

'Every composer should be able to play his own compositions at the piano.'

'When a man is in despair, it means that he still believes in something.'

In records that defy the tooth of time.

The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past where time hovers ghostlike.

Write in recollection and amazement for yourself