I know absolutely nothing about music.

I write music with an exclamation point!

The language of tones belongs equally to all mankind, and melody is the absolute language in which the musician speaks to every heart.

Blessed be, the genius who never knew good fortune! Genius in itself already means so much; what meaning does luck still hold for him?

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

We must learn to die, and to die in the fullest sense of the word. The fear of the end is the source of all lovelessness

The whole duty of a conductor is comprised in his ability to indicate the right tempo.