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.

In opera, there is always too much singing.

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

I wish to sing of my interior visions with the naive candour of a child.

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

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

Do not allow the accents in the brass to produce space between the notes.