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 am convinced that there are universal currents of Divine Thought vibrating the ether everywhere and that any who can feel these vibrations is inspired.

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.

I write music with an exclamation point!

I wish I could score everything for horns.

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

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