If I could express the same thing with words as with music, I would, of course, use a verbal expression. Music is something autonomous and much richer. Music begins where the possibilities of language end. That is why I write music.

For me, music begins where words end.

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.

All the doctors who wanted to forbid me to smoke and to drink are dead.

No statue has ever been put up to a critic.

Music begins where the possibilities of language end.

Music is on a higher plane than everything else in this world.