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

Music is the expression of the movement of the waters, the play of curves described by changing breezes.

If I am not making music, I have no reason for existing.

Inspiration and ideas only come to me when I have not had a woman in a very long time... Ballads, polonaises, even a whole concerto may have been lost forever up your des durka, I can't tell you how many. I have been so deeply engulfed in my love for you I have hardly created anything.

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

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

Beauty must appeal to the senses, must provide us with immediate enjoyment, must impress us or insinuate itself into us without any effort on our part.