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

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

There is nothing more musical than a sunset.

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

People don't very much like things that are beautiful - they are so far from their nasty little minds.

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.

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.