Gabriel Fauré

"How many times have I asked myself what use music is? And what am I translating? What feelings? What ideas? How can I express something I do not understand myself?"

"As for my work, I can say that it reaches its end. I do not want my Quartet to be published and played before it has been tried out in front of my friends, who have always been the first to hear my wo…"

"As to the piece I have started, it will only be the fiftieth or more of my piano pieces that, with rare exceptions, pianists allow to pile up without playing, That has been their lot for twenty years."

"Gabriel Fauré, repeating a thought he had often expressed to me, wrote in a letter on the 2nd August 1910: "In piano music one cannot use padding; one must pay in cash so that it is interesting all th…"

"Common Chord" . "Key Notes: New Director of the Paris Conservatoire". The Sketch: A Journal of Art and Actuality. Volume 51, Number 655."

"He denied the presence of inspiration: "Without work, which is art, there is nothing," he said. "Say only that which is of value, or stay silent" was the credo of his entire existence."

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

"Mason, Daniel Gregory . "Fauré and the Beginning of the New". The Art of Music: The Voice and Vocal Music. New York: The National Society of Music. pp. 347-353"