It is strange how one feels drawn forward without knowing at first where one is going.
To write a symphony is, for me, to construct a world.
I don't let myself get carried away by my own ideas; I abandon 19 out of 20 of them every day.
To judge a composer's work, one must consider it as a whole.
It should be oneโs sole endeavor to see everything afresh and create it anew.
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.