Claude Debussy

Music is the silence between the notes.

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

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

I have a naturally camp sensibility and a camp sense of humour. I love the icons that gay people love.

A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs.

The battle for the mind of Ronald Reagan was like the trench warfare of World War I: never have so many fought so hard for such barren terrain.