God can only be comprehended as Love.
What I wanted and what I visualized while composing has not always been realized.
There is a world of difference between a Mahler eighth note and a normal eighth note.
Even if people censure me, they should do so hat in hand.
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.
A symphony must be like the world. It must contain everything.