The immoral profession of musical criticism must be abolished.

Divorce is one of the most financially traumatic things you can go through. Money spent on getting mad or getting even is money wasted.

We must learn to die, and to die in the fullest sense of the word. The fear of the end is the source of all lovelessness

I wish I could score everything for horns.

The purpose of art: to make the unconscious conscious.

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

The essence of higher instrumental music lays herein that one is able to express in tones that what one is unable to say in words.