I find above all that the expression, atonal music, is most unfortunate — it is on a par with calling flying the art of not falling, or swimming the art of not drowning.

I am the slave of an internal power more powerful than my education.

If it is art, it is not for all, and if it is for all, it is not art.

Lucidity is the first purpose of color in music.

Rests always sound well.

If music is frozen architecture, then the potpourri is frozen coffee-table gossip... Potpourri is the art of adding apples to pears.

In Spring! In the creation of art it must be as it is in Spring!