Music is the wine which inspires one to new generative processes, and I am Bacchus who presses out this glorious wine for mankind and makes them spiritually drunken.

In the world of art, as in the whole of creation, freedom and progress are the main objectives.

Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.

Strange, I feel as if up to now I had written no more than a few notes.

Tones sound, and roar and storm about me until I have set them down in notes.

This is the mark of a really admirable man: steadfastness in the face of trouble.

He who understand my music will remain free from the miseries that the other men are dragging with them .