There is nothing more musical than a sunset.

Works of art make rules but rules do not make works of art.

There is nothing more musical than a sunset. He who feels what he sees will find no more beautiful example of development in all that book which, alas, musicians read but too little - the book of Nature.

Some people wish above all to conform to the rules, I wish only to render what I can hear.

On those who overanalyze his music: When you tear the wings off a butterfly, it is no longer a butterfly

Peter Townsend Music is the silence between the notes.. So could it be said that dance is the stillness between the steps?

Anyone who calls my music "impressionist" is an imbecile.