A full cup of wine at the right time is worth more than all the kingdoms of this earth!
There is a world of difference between a Mahler eighth note and a normal eighth note.
Never let oneself be guided by the opinion of one's contemporaries. Continue steadfastly on one's way.
In Bach, the vital cells of music are united as the world is in God.
What I wanted and what I visualized while composing has not always been realized.
But it's peculiar, as soon as I am in the midst of nature and by myself, everything that is base and trivial vanishes without trace. On such days nothing scares me; and this helps me again and again.