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.

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.

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

The colour of my soul is iron-grey and sad bats wheel about the steeple of my dreams.

But music, don't you know, is a dream from which the veils have been lifted. It's not even the expression of a feeling, it's the feeling itself.

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

Life is the space between our things.