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

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

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.

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

Beauty seems to strike some people as a personal affront.

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.

In opera, there is always too much singing.