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.

Many's the man/ who thought himself wise/ but what he needed/ he did not know.

I know absolutely nothing about music.

The purpose of art: to make the unconscious conscious.

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

The whole duty of a conductor is comprised in his ability to indicate the right tempo.

Imagination creates reality.