Music is in the space between the notes.

Anyone who calls my music "impressionist" is an imbecile.

Music begins where words are powerless to express. Music is made for the inexpressible. I want music to seem to rise from the shadows and indeed sometimes to return to them.

I have a horror of sentimentality, and I cannot forget that its name is Saint-Saëns.

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

The century of airplanes has a right to its own music.

There is nothing more musical than a sunset.