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“The century of airplanes deserves its own music. As there are no precedents, I must create anew.”
“There is no theory. You merely have to listen. Pleasure is the law.”
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“To complete a work is just like being present at the death of someone you love.”
“Claude Debussy was a rare phenomenon a composer profoundly and subversively revolutionary.”
“I have a horror of sentimentality, and I cannot forget that its name is Saint-Saëns.”
“The trouble with the opera is there's always to much singing.”
“The colour of my soul is iron-grey and sad bats wheel about the steeple of my dreams.”
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“People come to music to seek oblivion: is that not also a form of deception?”
“Works of art make rules but rules do not make works of art.”
“[on Richard Wagner] A beautiful sunset that was mistaken for a dawn.”
“Some people wish above all to conform to the rules, I wish only to render what I can hear.”
“I wish to sing of my interior visions with the naive candour of a child.”
“Music is the arithmetic of sounds as optics is the geometry of light.”
“First of all, ladies and gentlemen, you must forget that you are singers.”
“How much has to be explored and discarded before reaching the naked flesh of feeling.”