All music is nothing more than a succession of impulses that converge towards a definite point of repose.

The performance of performance has developed to such an extent in recent years that it challenges the music itself and will soon threaten it with relegation.

It's one of nature's way that we often feel closer to distant generations than to the generation immediately preceding us.

A composer is not only an architect but also an inventor, and he should not build houses in which he cannot live.

To be deprived of art and left alone with philosophy is to be close to Hell.

What force is more potent than love?

I wonder if memory is true, and I know that it cannot be, but that one lives by memory nevertheless and not by truth.