Of all possible subjects, travel is the most difficult for an artist, as it is the easiest for a journalist.

I'll love you, dear, I'll love you till China and Africa meet and the river jumps over the mountain and the salmon sing in the street.

To make one, there must be two.

The most exciting rhythms seem unexpected and complex, the most beautiful melodies simple and inevitable.

A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.

Music can be made anywhere, is invisible and does not smell.

To be happy means to be free, not from pain or fear, but from care or anxiety.