Good music is very close to primitive language.

Gaiety - a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.

The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.

The first promise exchanged by two beings of flesh was at the foot of a rock that was crumbling into dust; they took as witness for their constancy a sky that …

If I could express the same thing with words as with music, I would, of course, use a verbal expression. Music is something autonomous and much richer. Music b…

Tout silence n'est fait que de paroles qu'on n'a pas dites. C'est pour cela peut-etre que je devins un musicien. Il fallait quelqu'un pour exprimer ce silence,…

Her every tone is music's own, Like those of morning birds, And something more than melody Dwells ever in her words.