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.

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

But music, don't you know, is a dream from which the veils have been lifted. It's not even the expression of a feeling, it's the feeling itself.

People come to music to seek oblivion: is that not also a form of deception?

The age of automobiles and aeroplanes cannot express itself in the same manner as did the age of the diligence.

There is nothing more musical than a sunset.

I wish to sing of my interior visions with the naive candour of a child.