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 oldest, truest, most beautiful organ of music, the origin to which alone our music owes its being, is the human voice.

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

I am convinced that there are universal currents of Divine Thought vibrating the ether everywhere and that any who can feel these vibrations is inspired.

Whatever my passions demand of me, I become for the time being - musician, poet, director, author, lecturer or anything else.

I am fond of them, of the inferior beings of the abyss, of those who are full of longing.

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.