What force is more potent than love?

Music is given to us specifically to make order of things, to move from an anarchic, individualistic state to a regulated, perfectly concious one, which alone insures vitality and durability.

Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning.

An audience is an abstraction; it has no taste. It must depend on the only person who has (pardon, should have), the conductor.

I am an inventor of music.

I know that the twelve notes in each octave and the variety of rhythm offer me opportunities that all of human genius will never exhaust.

Mediocrity borrows, genius steals.