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

It is impossible to communicate with Schumann. The man is hopeless; he doesn't talk at all.

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.

Joy is not in things; it is in us.

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

The long-term vision is to replace, repair and regenerate failing tissues and organs with the materials of tissues and organs. It's still 'out there,' but it's possible to put together a grant proposal now that doesn't sound completely crazy.

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.