Music is never stationary; successive forms and styles are only like so many resting-places - like tents pitched and taken down again on the road to the Ideal.

Music is the heart of life." She speaks love; "without it, there is no possible good and with it everything is beautiful.

My sole ambition as a composer is to hurl my javelin into the infinite space of the future.

Music is never stationary; successive forms and styles are only like so many resting-places - like tents pitched and taken down again on the road to the Ideal.

Supreme serenity still remains the Ideal of great Art. The shapes and transitory forms of life are but stages toward this Ideal, which Christ's religion illuminates with His divine light.

A good Cuban cigar closes the doors to the vulgarities of the world.

When you write the story of two happy lovers, let the story be set on the banks of Lake Como.