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

He was the incomparable painter of mystery, silence, and the infinite, of the passing cloud, and the sunlit shimmer of the waves-subleties which none before him had been capable of suggesting.

Music begins where words are powerless to express. Music is made for the inexpressible. I want music to seem to rise from the shadows and indeed sometimes to return to them.

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

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

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

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