Beauty must appeal to the senses, must provide us with immediate enjoyment, must impress us or insinuate itself into us without any effort on our part.
Do not allow the accents in the brass to produce space between the notes.
Music is the space between the notes.
On those who overanalyze his music: When you tear the wings off a butterfly, it is no longer a butterfly
Works of art make rules but rules do not make works of art.
There is nothing more musical than a sunset. He who feels what he sees will find no more beautiful example of development in all that book which, alas, musicians read but too little - the book of Nature.