The century of airplanes has a right to its own music.
[on Richard Wagner] A beautiful sunset that was mistaken for a dawn.
Art is the most beautiful deception of all!
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.
The colour of my soul is iron-grey and sad bats wheel about the steeple of my dreams.
Music is the arithmetic of sounds as optics is the geometry of light.