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

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.

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

Art is the most beautiful deception of all!

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.

The attraction of the virtuoso for the public is very like that of the circus for the crowd. There is always the hope that something dangerous may happen.