Brahms believed that there was no need to publish absolutely everything that Schubert ever wrote.

Many, many composers have only found their way to a certain form, through familiarizing themselves with texts.

Some critics have written that I wanted to teach through singing. Not at all. I was learning I went to school every time I gave a song recital.

The work is the most important thing.

The reason why Schubert is celebrated so much today, lies rather in the fact that there has been nobody else like him - not before him, not after him.

It is desirable that people make music on the breath, with the breath.

In Romanticism, the main determinant is the mood, the atmosphere. And in that regard, you could also describe Schubert as a Romantic.