It is my conviction that the public always shows itself more honest in its spontaneity than do those who officially set themselves up as judges of works of art.

It is my conviction that the public always shows itself more honest in its spontaneity than do those who officially set themselves up as judges of works of art.

My music is best understood by children and animals.

I had another dream the other day about music critics. They were small and rodent-like with padlocked ears, as if they had stepped out of a painting by Goya.

To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.

Music is the sole domain in which man realizes the present.

In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love?