Music is in the space between the notes.

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.

Peter Townsend Music is the silence between the notes.. So could it be said that dance is the stillness between the steps?

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 century of aeroplanes deserves its own music. As there are no precedents, I must create anew.

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

Works of art make rules but rules do not make works of art.