When we are young, friends are, like everything else, a matter of course. In the old days we know what it means to have them.

I am sure my music has a taste of codfish in it.

Suddenly a mist fell from my eyes and I knew the way I had to take.

In Bach, Beethoven and Wagner we admire principally the depth and energy of the human mind; in Mozart, the divine instinct.

Artists like Bach and Beethoven erected churches and temples on the heights. I only wantedto build dwellings for men in which they might feel happy and at home

When we are young, friends are, like everything else, a matter of course. In the old days we know what it means to have them.

A landscape, torn by mists and clouds, in which I can see ruins of old churches, as well as of Greek temples - that is Brahms.