Anyone who calls my music "impressionist" is an imbecile.
The age of automobiles and aeroplanes cannot express itself in the same manner as did the age of the diligence.
The trouble with the opera is there's always to much singing.
[on Richard Wagner] A beautiful sunset that was mistaken for a dawn.
If I am not making music, I have no reason for existing.
The attraction of the virtuoso for the public is very like that of the circus for the crowd. There is always the hope that something dangerous may happen.