Hurry? I have no time to hurry.

Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

There is music wherever there is rhythm, as there is life wherever there beats a pulse.

I never am sea sick, never. I am sea drunk!

Composers combine notes, that's all.

Music is the sole domain in which man realizes the present.

My freedom will be so much the greater and more meaningful the more narrowly I limit my field of action and the more I surround myself with obstacles. Whatever diminishes constraint diminishes strength. The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one's self of the chains that shackle the spirit.