All the doctors who wanted to forbid me to smoke and to drink are dead.
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.
No statue has ever been put up to a critic.
For me, music begins where words end.
No one ever erected a statue of a critic.
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.