There is a world of difference between a Mahler eighth note and a normal eighth note.
Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire.
Don't bother looking at the view - I have already composed it.
It's not just a question of conquering a summit previously unknown, but of tracing, step by step, a new pathway to it.
God can only be comprehended as Love.
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.