There is no theory. You have only to listen. Pleasure is the law. I love music passionately. And because l love it, I try to free it from barren traditions that stifle it. It is a free art gushing forth, an open-air art boundless as the elements, the wind, the sky, the sea. It must never be shut in and become an academic art.

Extreme complication is contrary to art.

There is no theory. You merely have to listen. Pleasure is the law.

On those who overanalyze his music: When you tear the wings off a butterfly, it is no longer a butterfly

Beauty seems to strike some people as a personal affront.

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.

How much has to be explored and discarded before reaching the naked flesh of feeling.