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

On those who overanalyze his music: When you tear the wings off a butterfly, it is no longer a butterfly

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 is the expression of the movement of the waters, the play of curves described by changing breezes.

Art is the most beautiful deception of all!

Beauty must appeal to the senses, must provide us with immediate enjoyment, must impress us or insinuate itself into us without any effort on our part.

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