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

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.

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

Listen to no one's advice except that of the wind in the trees. That can recount the whole history of mankind...