[on Richard Wagner] A Beautiful Sunset That

The Century Of Aeroplanes Deserves Its Own Music. As There Are No Precedents, I Must Create Anew.

There Is No Theory. You Have Only To Listen. Pleasure Is The Law. I Love Music Passionately. And Because L Love It, I Try To Free It From Barren Traditions That Stifle It. It Is A Free Art Gushing Forth, An Open-air Art Boundless As The Elements, The Wind, The Sky, The Sea. It Must Never Be Shut In And Become An Academic Art.

Anyone Who Calls My Music "impressionist" Is An Imbecile.

Some People Wish Above All To Conform To The Rules, I Wish Only To Render What I Can Hear.

In Opera, There Is Always Too Much Singing.