Must one become seventy years old to recognize that one's greatest strength lies in creating musical kitsch?

I may not be a first-rate composer, but I am a first-class second-rate composer.

Ideas, like young wine, should be put in storage and taken up again only after they have been allowed to ferment and to ripen.

If you think that the brass is not blowing loud enough, mute it by a couple of degrees.

Its a funny thing Alice, dying is just the way I composed it in Tod und Verklärung.

I shall never be converted, and I shall remain true to my old religion of the classics until my life's end.

He'd be better off shoveling snow.