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

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

I am more and more convinced that music is not, in essence, a thing which can be cast into a traditional and fixed form. It is made up of colors and rhythms.

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

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

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.