It is a funny thing, but when I am making music, all the answers I seek for in life seem to be there, in the music. Or rather, I should say, when I am making music, there are no questions and no need for answers.

It should be one’s sole endeavor to see everything afresh and create it anew.

If you think you're boring your audience, go slower not faster.

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

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

Beauty and fullness of tone can be achieved by having the whole orchestra play with high clarinets and a carefully selected number of piccolos.

I was a crazy young man who let himself be blinded by his passions and obeyed only the impulses of the moment.