...music is the living God in our bosoms.

The essence of higher instrumental music lays herein that one is able to express in tones that what one is unable to say in words.

I regard the Jewish race as the born enemy of pure humanity and everything that is noble in it.

Music truely has to all other arts the same relation as religion to the church.

If experiments on animals were abandoned on grounds of compassion, mankind would have made a fundamental advance.

The sounds proceeding from the instruments of symphonic music seem to be the very organs of the mysteries of creation; for they reveal, as it were, the primal stirrings of creation which brought order out of chaos long before the human heart was there to behold them.

I believe in God, Mozart and Beethoven, and likewise their disciples and apostles; - I believe in the Holy Spirit and the truth of the one, indivisible Art; - I believe that this Art proceeds from God, and lives within the hearts of all illumined men.