[on Richard Wagner] A beautiful sunset that was mistaken for a dawn.
If I am not making music, I have no reason for existing.
Music is the arithmetic of sounds as optics is the geometry of light.
Anyone who calls my music "impressionist" is an imbecile.
People don't very much like things that are beautiful - they are so far from their nasty little minds.
People come to music to seek oblivion: is that not also a form of deception?