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

In opera, there is always too much singing.

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

The attraction of the virtuoso for the public is very like that of the circus for the crowd. There is always the hope that something dangerous may happen.

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

I have a horror of sentimentality, and I cannot forget that its name is Saint-Saëns.

Some people wish above all to conform to the rules, I wish only to render what I can hear.