There is a world of difference between a Mahler eighth note and a normal eighth note.
I don't let myself get carried away by my own ideas; I abandon 19 out of 20 of them every day.
To write a symphony is, for me, to construct a world.
God can only be comprehended as Love.
I am thrice homeless, as a native of Bohemia in Austria, as an Austrian among Germans, and as a Jew throughout the world. Everywhere an intruder, never welcomed.
The further the music develops, the more complex the apparatus used by the composer to express his thoughts becomes.