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.

How much has to be explored and discarded before reaching the naked flesh of feeling.

Peter Townsend Music is the silence between the notes.. So could it be said that dance is the stillness between the steps?

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

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.

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

Anyone who calls my music "impressionist" is an imbecile.