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

You know my faithfulness to you, never can another own my heart, never - never - never...

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.

One siupreme fact which I have discovered is that it is not willpower, but fantasy and imagination that ceates. Imagination is the creative force. Imagination creates reality.

I have long been convinced that my artistic ideal stands or falls with Germany. Only the Germany that we love and desire can help us achieve that ideal.

The only form of music is melody, without melody music is not feasible, and music and melody are quite inseparable.

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