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

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

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

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

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

Music is in the space between the notes.

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