There is nothing more musical than a sunset.

The trouble with the opera is there's always to much singing.

Life is the space between our things.

There is no theory. You have only to listen. Pleasure is the law. I love music passionately. And because l love it, I try to free it from barren traditions that stifle it. It is a free art gushing forth, an open-air art boundless as the elements, the wind, the sky, the sea. It must never be shut in and become an academic art.

I have a horror of sentimentality, and I cannot forget that its name is Saint-Saëns.

Music is the space between the notes.

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