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

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

Works of art make rules but rules do not make works of art.

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

Music is the space between the notes.

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

The colour of my soul is iron-grey and sad bats wheel about the steeple of my dreams.