You cannot expect the Form before the Idea,For they will come into being together.

You cannot expect the Form before the Idea,For they will come into being together.

The principal function of form is to advance our understanding. It is the organization of a piece which helps the listener to keep the idea in mind, to follow its development, its growth, its elaboration, its fate.

I find above all that the expression, atonal music, is most unfortunate — it is on a par with calling flying the art of not falling, or swimming the art of not drowning.

I have never seen faces, but because I have looked people in the eye, only their gazes.

I owe very, very much to Mozart; and if one studies, for instance, the way in which I write for string quartet, then one cannot deny that I have learned this directly from Mozart. And I am proud of it!

In Spring! In the creation of art it must be as it is in Spring!