First of all, ladies and gentlemen, you must forget that you are singers.

Extreme complication is contrary to art.

How much has to be explored and discarded before reaching the naked flesh of feeling.

People come to music to seek oblivion: is that not also a form of deception?

Music is in the space between the notes.

But music, don't you know, is a dream from which the veils have been lifted. It's not even the expression of a feeling, it's the feeling itself.

There is nothing more musical than a sunset.