The age of automobiles and aeroplanes cannot express itself in the same manner as did the age of the diligence.

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

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.

Life is the space between our things.

I am more and more convinced that music is not, in essence, a thing which can be cast into a traditional and fixed form. It is made up of colors and rhythms.

If I am not making music, I have no reason for existing.

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.