Un artiste est par définition un homme habitué au rêve et qui vit parmi des fantômes. - Claude Debussy

Music is a mysterious mathematical process whose elements are part of Infinity. … There is nothing more musical than a sunset. He who feels what he sees will find no more beautiful example of development in all that book which, alas, musicians read but too little — the book of Nature.

People don't very much like things that are beautiful.. they are so far from their nasty little minds.

First of all, ladies and gentlemen, you must forget that you are singers.