Blessed be, the genius who never knew good fortune! Genius in itself already means so much; what meaning does luck still hold for him?

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

I regard the Jewish race as the born enemy of pure humanity and everything that is noble in it.

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.

Never look at the trombones, it only encourages them.

Achievements, seldom credited to their source, are the result of unspeakable drudgery and worries.