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

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.

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

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.

My music is not modern, it is merely badly played

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

Lucidity is the first purpose of color in music.