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 know absolutely nothing about music.

If experiments on animals were abandoned on grounds of compassion, mankind would have made a fundamental advance.

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

Music is the inarticulate speech of the heart, which cannot be compressed into words, because it is infinite.

Never look at the trombones, it only encourages them.

Plant life instead of animal food is the keystone of regeneration. Jesus used bread instead of flesh and wine in place of blood at the Lord's Supper.