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

Some people wish above all to conform to the rules, I wish only to render what I can hear.

Art is the most beautiful deception of all!

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.

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.

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

There is nothing more musical than a sunset.