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

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

Music begins where words are powerless to express. Music is made for the inexpressible. I want music to seem to rise from the shadows and indeed sometimes to return to them.

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.

Art is the most beautiful deception of all!

Anyone who calls my music "impressionist" is an imbecile.

Music is the space between the notes.