The longer you live and the more you learn, the more clearly you will feel the difference between the few men who are truly great and the mere virtuosi.

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

If you think you're boring your audience, go slower not faster.

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

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

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.

Behind me the branches of a wasted and sterile existence are cracking.