There is a world of difference between a Mahler eighth note and a normal eighth note.

When I have reached a summit, I leave it with great reluctance, unless it is to reach for another, higher one.

I have become a different person. I don't know whether this person is better, he certainly is not happier.

The point is not to take the world's opinion as a guiding star but to go one's way in life and working unerringly, neither depressed by failure nor seduced by applause.

The call of love sounds very hollow among these immobile rocks.

If I weren't the way I am, I shouldn't write my symphonies.

To judge a composer's work, one must consider it as a whole.