Art is the most beautiful deception of all!

I love music passionately. And because I love it I try to free it from barren traditions that stifle it.

If we look at the works of JS Bach ... on each page we discover things which we thought were born only yesterday, from delightful arabesques to an overflowing of religious feeling greater than anything we have since discovered.

There is nothing more musical than a sunset.

Music begins where words are powerless to express. Music is made for the inexpressible. I want music to seem to rise from the shadows and indeed sometimes to return to them.

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

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