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

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.

Wherever the fish are, that's where we go.

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.

I write music with an exclamation point!

The purpose of art: to make the unconscious conscious.

Even if I know I shall never change the masses, never transform anything permanent, all I ask is that the good things also have their place, their refuge.