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

People don't very much like things that are beautiful - they are so far from their nasty little minds.

[on Richard Wagner] A beautiful sunset that was mistaken for a dawn.

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

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

Inspiration and ideas only come to me when I have not had a woman in a very long time... Ballads, polonaises, even a whole concerto may have been lost forever up your des durka, I can't tell you how many. I have been so deeply engulfed in my love for you I have hardly created anything.

The sound of the sea, the curve of a horizon, wind in leaves, the cry of a bird leave manifold impression in us. And suddenly, without our wishing it at all, one of these memories spills from us and finds expression in musical language...I want to sing my interior landscape with the simple artlessness of a child.