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.

Music is the space between the notes.

There is nothing more musical than a sunset.

Some people wish above all to conform to the rules, I wish only to render what I can hear.

People don't very much like things that are beautiful - they are so far from their nasty little minds.

Music is the expression of the movement of the waters, the play of curves described by changing breezes.

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.