I hope you will no longer accuse me of a lack of delicacy. as I now count on your understanding.

I beg of you... never assume an inner or an outer pose, never a disguise.

Tradition is laziness.

I hope you will no longer accuse me of a lack of delicacy. as I now count on your understanding.

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.

If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music.

It's not just a question of conquering a summit previously unknown, but of tracing, step by step, a new pathway to it.