He was the incomparable painter of mystery, silence, and the infinite, of the passing cloud, and the sunlit shimmer of the waves-subleties which none before him had been capable of suggesting.

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.

Believe in yourself and have faith in your abilities.

The marriage bond is more than a civil contract. It is a reward for loving well.

In the race for love I was scratched.

If you would be a reader, read; if a writer, write.

If you can't win, make sure you don't lose.

I always do things before I go on a case and when I leave a case. I even do that when I'm out on the road.

To rise with the lark, and go to bed with the lamb.

The money from every unit being sold is what I feel every artist should see.

Trouble brings trouble upon trouble.

By being seldom seen, I could not stir But like a comet I was wondered at.