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

Whatever I thought right, to others seemed wrong; what I held to be bad, others approved of.

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

I know nothing at all about music.

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.

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.

That even in its sharpest pangs of pain a dog can still caress its master we have learnt from the studies of vivisectors.