Tradition is laziness.

Tradition is laziness.

Discipline, work. Work, discipline.

It is strange how one feels drawn forward without knowing at first where one is going.

But it's peculiar, as soon as I am in the midst of nature and by myself, everything that is base and trivial vanishes without trace. On such days nothing scares me; and this helps me again and again.

Beauty and fullness of tone can be achieved by having the whole orchestra play with high clarinets and a carefully selected number of piccolos.

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