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

There is no theory. You merely have to listen. Pleasure is the law.

There is nothing more musical than a sunset.

If we look at the works of JS Bach ... on each page we discover things which we thought were born only yesterday, from delightful arabesques to an overflowing of religious feeling greater than anything we have since discovered.

Do not allow the accents in the brass to produce space between the notes.

I am more and more convinced that music is not, in essence, a thing which can be cast into a traditional and fixed form. It is made up of colors and rhythms.

Composers aren't daring enough. They're afraid of that sacred idol called 'common sense', which is the most dreadful thing I know - after all, it's no more than a religion founded to excuse the ubiquity of imbeciles!