Music Is The Arithmetic Of Sounds As

What I Am Trying To Do Is Something Different - An Effect Of Reality, But What Some Fools Call Impressionism, A Term That Is Usually Misapplied, Especially By The Critics Who Don't Hesitate To Apply It To Turner, The Greatest Creator Of Mysterious Effects In The Whole World Of Art.

There Is Nothing More Musical Than A Sunset. He Who Feels What He Sees Will Find No More Beautiful Example Of Development In All That Book Which, Alas, Musicians Read But Too Little - The Book Of Nature.

The Trouble With The Opera Is There's Always To Much Singing.

If I Am Not Making Music, I Have No Reason For Existing.

On Those Who Overanalyze His Music: When You Tear The Wings Off A Butterfly, It Is No Longer A Butterfly