What is best in music is not to be found in the notes.
I don't let myself get carried away by my own ideas; I abandon 19 out of 20 of them every day.
What I wanted and what I visualized while composing has not always been realized.
I am thrice homeless, as a native of Bohemia in Austria, as an Austrian among Germans, and as a Jew throughout the world. Everywhere an intruder, never welcomed.
Don't bother looking at the view - I have already composed it.
A true personality . . . is like a robust organism that, with unconscious sureness, seeks out and digests the nourishment appropriate to it and vigorously rejects that which is unsuitable.