Fortunately, something always remains to be harvested. So let us not be idle.

Don't bother looking at the view - I have already composed it.

I was a crazy young man who let himself be blinded by his passions and obeyed only the impulses of the moment.

The longer you live and the more you learn, the more clearly you will feel the difference between the few men who are truly great and the mere virtuosi.

That which draws us by its mystical force; what every created thing, even the very stones, feels with absolute certainty as the center of its being... is the force of love. Christians call this "eternal blessedness." It is a necessity of man for growth and joy.

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

What I wanted and what I visualized while composing has not always been realized.