It is necessary to abandon yourself completely, and let the music do as it will with you. All people come to music to seek oblivion.

There is nothing more musical than a sunset.

But music, don't you know, is a dream from which the veils have been lifted. It's not even the expression of a feeling, it's the feeling itself.

Music is the space between the notes.

Works of art make rules but rules do not make works of art.

Music begins where words are powerless to express. Music is made for the inexpressible. I want music to seem to rise from the shadows and indeed sometimes to return to them.

Music is the expression of the movement of the waters, the play of curves described by changing breezes.

[on Richard Wagner] A beautiful sunset that was mistaken for a dawn.

I am more and more convinced that music is not, in essence, a thing which can be cast into a traditional and fixed form. It is made up of colors and rhythms.

Listen to no one's advice except that of the wind in the trees. That can recount the whole history of mankind.

I love music passionately. And because I love it I try to free it from barren traditions that stifle it.

A reputable person is he who has trust in his own Self. Self means who? “I am Pure Soul”, it is that Self.

A peculiar sort of chaos looms beneath the pretense of peace.

You may not be able to buy love with money, but if you spend your love, you may end up with a lot of money.

You boys going to get somewhere, or just going?" We didn't understand his question, and it was a damned good question.

The way you react to challenging situations will say a lot about you. Actually, it will make or break your business.

No creature, large or small, ever fails to cover the ground upon which it stands.

In lightness the root is lost. In haste the ruler is lost.

When God has once begun to throw down the prosperous, He overthrows them altogether: such is the end of the mighty.

Appetite, with an opinion of attaining, is called hope; the same, without such opinion, despair.

And that was the way The deuce was to pay As it always is, at the close of the day That gave us