If you really put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price. Pay no attention to what the critics say. A statue has never been erected in honor of a critic.
For me, music begins where words end.
No statue has ever been put up to a critic.
Music begins where the possibilities of language end.
All the doctors who wanted to forbid me to smoke and to drink are dead.
I often conduct an orchestra in my sleep; my orchestras are so huge that the back desks of the violas vanish into the horizon. And everything is so wonderful.