Listen to no one's advice except that of the wind in the trees. That can recount the whole history of mankind.

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

The century of airplanes has a right to its own music.

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

Music is the arithmetic of sounds as optics is the geometry of light.

Music is the expression of the movement of the waters, the play of curves described by changing breezes.

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