I am not fond of speaking about politics because I don't have in my possession an army of 200,000 soldiers.

Music is never stationary; successive forms and styles are only like so many resting-places - like tents pitched and taken down again on the road to the Ideal.

My sole ambition as a composer is to hurl my javelin into the infinite space of the future.

In life one must decide whether to conjugate the verb to have or the verb to be.

Truth is a great flirt.

Music embodies feeling without forcing it to contend and combine with thought, as it is forced in most arts and especially in the art of words.

Brahms' Variations are better than mine, but mine were written before his.