Beauty seems to strike some people as a personal affront.

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

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.

Life is the space between our things.

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.

I love music passionately. And because I love it I try to free it from barren traditions that stifle it.