The music I desire must be supple enough to adapt itself to the lyrical effusions of the soul and the fantasy of dreams.

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.

Ballet shoes... I cannot play with them like they're toys. But when the music is playing they get deep on my toes.

You may not have a clue of what lies ahead, but it’s better to act on life than simply let life act on you.

I am, for the most part, who I am because my good mother was who she was.

There are reasons to doubt that what we call the laws of physics necessarily apply everywhere in the universe—or that they were applicable to every time in its history.

Every girl in the world should have geisha training

My constituents don't want more refugees. I'm not ashamed to represent these voters. I'm proud of it.

True love BLOOMS when we care more about another person than we care about ourselves.

I was very nervous at the beginning of Hotel du Nord.

To win you must have talent and desire ­ but desire is first.

My idea of enlightenment is when ego and Tao are fused, and Tao is perceived as ego. Then everything happens with complete appropriateness.