I always try to make myself as widely understood as possible; and if I don't succeed, I consider it my own fault.

The best way to hold on to something is to pay no attention to it. The things you love too much perish. You have to treat everything with irony, especially the things you hold dear. There's more of a chance then that they'll survive.

Our business is rejoicing, our business is rejoicing.

Music is a means capable of expressing dark dramatism and pure rapture, suffering and ecstasy, fiery and cold fury, melancholy and wild merriment – and the subtlest nuances and interplay of these feelings which words are powerless to express and which are unattainable in painting and sculpture.

A creative artist works on his next composition because he was not satisfied with his previous one.

What you have in your head, put down on paper. The head is a fragile vessel.

Every piece of music is a form of personal expression for its creator...If a work doesnt express the composers own personal point of view, his own ideas, then it doesnt, in my opinion, even deserve to be born.