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.

Music is the space between the notes.

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

In opera, there is always too much singing.

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

Do not allow the accents in the brass to produce space between the notes.

I have a horror of sentimentality, and I cannot forget that its name is Saint-Saëns.