"Now, there are some periods of music, some pitches of which I can hear nothing... of my music as well as of others. I…"

"It was not just in the Andante of the Second Quartet that I remembered having translated (almost involuntarily) the d…"

"Gabriel Fauré, repeating a thought he had often expressed to me, wrote in a letter on the 2nd August 1910: "In piano …"

"But Lortat, I'm not in the habit of attracting crowds."

"As to the piece I have started, it will only be the fiftieth or more of my piano pieces that, with rare exceptions, p…"

"As for my work, I can say that it reaches its end. [...] I do not want my Quartet to be published and played before i…"

"When I am no more, you will hear said of my work: "After all, it is only so much..." You will detach yourself from it…"

"To know an art really well, one must know everything about it, both its origins and its development."

"How many times have I asked myself what use music is? And what am I translating? What feelings? What ideas? How can I…"

"It has been said that my Requiem does not express the fear of death and someone has called it a lullaby of death. But…"