The creative process is like music which takes root with extraordinary force and rapidity

Music is an incomparably more powerful means and is a subtler language for expressing the thousand different moments of the soul's moods.

Sometimes I observe with curiosity that uninterrupted activity which, independent of the subject of any conversation I may be carrying on, continues its course in that department of my brain that is devoted to music.

Handel is only fourth rate. He's not even interesting.

To regret the past, to hope in the future, and never to be satisfied with the present: that is what I spend my whole life doing

Mozart is the musical Christ.

Even in the works of the greatest master, the organic sequence can fail and then a skillful join must be made.