Whatever I thought right, to others seemed wrong; what I held to be bad, others approved of.

It is a truth forever, that where the speech of man stops short there Music's reign begins.

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

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.

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

Human dignity begins to assert itself only at the point where man is distinguishable from the beast by pity for it.

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.