It is easier to analyze a work in its form, in its evolution, than simply to love it with all the living forces of our heart. It is easier to define its peculiarities and its details than to draw out of it its emotion, its thought.

The history of harmony is the history of the development of the human ear, which has gradually assimilated, in their natural order, the successive intervals of the harmonic series.

Never forget that your days are blessed. You may know how to profit by them, or you may not, but they are blesses.

Life is denied by lack of attention, whether it be to cleaning windows or trying to write a masterpiece.

I adore tradition. I cannot stand habit. Simply to repeat is nothing, also to destroy is nothing. Tradition is never interrupted, we are always evolving but never interrupted.

The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.

You should never listen to someone practice. That is their work and theirs alone.