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

Listen to no one's advice except that of the wind in the trees. That can recount the whole history of mankind.

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.

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

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

The century of aeroplanes deserves its own music. As there are no precedents, I must create anew.

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