Anyone who calls my music "impressionist" is an imbecile.

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.

What is first?Love or life?Life or love?Intention or emotions?Emotions or intentions?

On your journey to achieve your dreams you will face challenges that will test you to the core.

Train not to get something right, train so that you can never get it wrong

I started doing drama after school, and it just developed into something that I did and I enjoyed very much.

Eating well gives a spectacular joy to life and contributes immensely to goodwill.

I didn't hit the ball like I was 46. But I putted like I was 66.

There are living systems; there is no'living matter'.

The things that you do should be things that you love, and things that you love should be things that you do.

I think the notion that we have all the democracy that money can buy strays so far from what our democracy is supposed to be.