People come to music to seek oblivion: is that not also a form of deception?

Music is the silence between the notes.

Art is the most beautiful deception of all. And although people try to incorporate the everyday events of life in it, we must hope that it will remain a deception lest it become a utilitarian thing, sad as a factory.

The century of airplanes has a right to its own music.

Works of art make rules; rules do not make works of art.

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