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.
To write a symphony is, for me, to construct a world.
An operetta is simply a small and gay opera.
What I wanted and what I visualized while composing has not always been realized.
I also had a brother who was like me a musician and a composer. A man of great talent, far more gifted than I. He died very young... he killed himself in the prime of his life.