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.

Works of art make rules but rules do not make works of art.

Music is in the space between the notes.

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

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

There is nothing more musical than a sunset.

Life is the space between our things.