What I wanted and what I visualized while composing has not always been realized.
If I weren't the way I am, I shouldn't write my symphonies.
What is best in music is not to be found in the notes.
I have become a different person. I don't know whether this person is better, he certainly is not happier.
In Bach, the vital cells of music are united as the world is in God.
God can only be comprehended as Love.