The effect of music is so very much more powerful and penetrating than is that of the other arts, for these others speak only of the shadow, but music of the essence.

Music is the arithmetic of sounds as optics is the geometry of light.

We must play from the soul, not like trained birds.

Without music, life would be a mistake.

Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent

A rainbow after another, the music is so.

I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.

The duty of the artist is to send light into the darkness of men’s hearts.

The only love affair I have ever had was with music.