[on Richard Wagner] A beautiful sunset that was mistaken for a dawn.

Extreme complication is contrary to art.

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

People come to music to seek oblivion: is that not also a form of deception?

There is nothing more musical than a sunset. He who feels what he sees will find no more beautiful example of development in all that book which, alas, musicians read but too little - the book of Nature.

If we look at the works of JS Bach ... on each page we discover things which we thought were born only yesterday, from delightful arabesques to an overflowing of religious feeling greater than anything we have since discovered.

Music is in the space between the notes.