Beauty must appeal to the senses, must provide us with immediate enjoyment, must impress us or insinuate itself into us without any effort on our part.

I wish to sing of my interior visions with the naive candour of a child.

On those who overanalyze his music: When you tear the wings off a butterfly, it is no longer a butterfly

First of all, ladies and gentlemen, you must forget that you are singers.

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

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.

Music is the space between the notes.