There is a world of difference between a Mahler eighth note and a normal eighth note.
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.
In Bach, the vital cells of music are united as the world is in God.
Tradition is laziness.
I don't choose what I compose. It chooses me.
Even if people censure me, they should do so hat in hand.