"I come to Italy [1935] not only to make music, but also to be in a country that is moving forward vigorously, that affirms itself ever more rigorously, in which one sees everywhere the imprint, and on…"

"Art is the opposite of chaos. Art is organized chaos."

"I don't believe in an afterlife, so I don't have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse."

"To listen is an effort, and a creative effort. The listener now becomes a performer."

"If a work is not finished by me before I begin to compose it, then I experience the deepest torment."