I wish I could score everything for horns.

The whole duty of a conductor is comprised in his ability to indicate the right tempo.

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

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

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

The sounds proceeding from the instruments of symphonic music seem to be the very organs of the mysteries of creation; for they reveal, as it were, the primal stirrings of creation which brought order out of chaos long before the human heart was there to behold them.

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.