Tradition is laziness.
A symphony must be like the world. It must contain everything.
I beg of you... never assume an inner or an outer pose, never a disguise.
I was a crazy young man who let himself be blinded by his passions and obeyed only the impulses of the moment.
It's not just a question of conquering a summit previously unknown, but of tracing, step by step, a new pathway to it.
The further the music develops, the more complex the apparatus used by the composer to express his thoughts becomes.