Composers aren't daring enough. They're afraid of that sacred idol called 'common sense', which is the most dreadful thing I know - after all, it's no more than a religion founded to excuse the ubiquity of imbeciles!

There is nothing more musical than a sunset. He who feels what he sees will find no more beautiful example of development in all that book which, alas, musicians read but too little - the book of Nature.

Music is the space between the notes.

Listen to no one's advice except that of the wind in the trees. That can recount the whole history of mankind.

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

The century of airplanes has a right to its own music.

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