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.

For once you are going to hear a dream, a dream that I have made sound... I dreamed all this; never could my poor head have invented such a thing.

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

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

I hate this fast growing tendency to chain men to machines in big factories and deprive them of all joy in their efforts - the plan will lead to cheap men and cheap products.

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

Music is the inarticulate speech of the heart, which cannot be compressed into words, because it is infinite.