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.

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

Art is the most beautiful deception of all! And although people try to incorporate the everyday events of life in it, we must hope that it will remain a deception lest it become a utilitarian thing, sad as a factory.

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.

The trouble with the opera is there's always to much singing.