There is nothing more musical than a sunset.

Composers aren't daring enough. They're afraid of that sacred idol called 'common sense', which is the most dreadful thing I know - after all, it's no more than a religion founded to excuse the ubiquity of imbeciles!

Do not allow the accents in the brass to produce space between the notes.

He was the incomparable painter of mystery, silence, and the infinite, of the passing cloud, and the sunlit shimmer of the waves-subleties which none before him had been capable of suggesting.

First of all, ladies and gentlemen, you must forget that you are singers.

The age of automobiles and aeroplanes cannot express itself in the same manner as did the age of the diligence.

How much has to be explored and discarded before reaching the naked flesh of feeling.