It is easier to achieve a desired result in short pieces.

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

The spirit can assert itself only through the medium of clear form.

In Bach, the vital cells of music are united as the world is in God.

I don't choose what I compose. It chooses me.

I am hitting my head against the walls, but the walls are giving way.

If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music.