“The oldest, truest, most beautiful organ of music, the origin to which alone our music owes its being, is the human voice.”
“Imagination creates reality.”
“Divorce is one of the most financially traumatic things you can go through. Money spent on getting mad or getting even is money wasted.”
“Even if I know I shall never change the masses, never transform anything permanent, all I ask is that the good things also have their place, their refuge.”
“I write music with an exclamation point!”
“Achievements, seldom credited to their source, are the result of unspeakable drudgery and worries.”
“Wherever the fish are, that’s where we go.”
“Everything lives and lasts by the inner necessity of its being, by its own nature’s need.”
“Life is earnest – and always has been.”
“It is a truth forever, that where the speech of man stops short there Music’s reign begins.”
“Never look at the trombones, it only encourages them.”
“In contrast to reincarnation and karma, all other views seem petty and narrow”
“It is impossible to communicate with Schumann. The man is hopeless; he doesn’t talk at all.”
“The purpose of art: to make the unconscious conscious.”
“…music is the living God in our bosoms.”
“One might say that where Religion becomes artificial, it is reserved for Art to save the spirit of religion.”
“The immoral profession of musical criticism must be abolished.”
“Music is the inarticulate speech of the heart, which cannot be compressed into words, because it is infinite.”
