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

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.

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

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

There is nothing more musical than a sunset.

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

Art is the most beautiful deception of all! And although people try to incorporate the everyday events of life in it, we must hope that it will remain a deception lest it become a utilitarian thing, sad as a factory.