I beg of you... never assume an inner or an outer pose, never a disguise.

A symphony must be like the world. It must contain everything.

In the theatrical works we love and admire the most, the ending of the drama generally takes place offstage.

Discipline, work. Work, discipline.

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

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

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.