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

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

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

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.

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

The further the music develops, the more complex the apparatus used by the composer to express his thoughts becomes.

Don't bother to look, I've composed all this already.