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

I am the slave of an internal power more powerful than my education.

Composing is a slowed-down improvisation; often one cannot write fast enough to keep up with the stream of ideas.

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

Rests always sound well.

There is still plenty of good music to be written in C major.

Music is only understood when one goes away singing it and only loved when one falls asleep with it in one's head, and finds it still there on waking up the next morning.