Art is the most beautiful deception of all! And although people try to incorporate the everyday events of life in it, we must hope that it will remain a deception lest it become a utilitarian thing, sad as a factory.

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

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

In opera, there is always too much singing.

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.

There is no theory. You merely have to listen. Pleasure is the law.

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.