Beauty seems to strike some people as a personal affront.

The age of automobiles and aeroplanes cannot express itself in the same manner as did the age of the diligence.

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

The century of aeroplanes deserves its own music. As there are no precedents, I must create anew.

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

Anyone who calls my music "impressionist" is an imbecile.

I am more and more convinced that music is not, in essence, a thing which can be cast into a traditional and fixed form. It is made up of colors and rhythms.