It is strange how one feels drawn forward without knowing at first where one is going.
The longer you live and the more you learn, the more clearly you will feel the difference between the few men who are truly great and the mere virtuosi.
When I have reached a summit, I leave it with great reluctance, unless it is to reach for another, higher one.
The real art of conducting consists in transitions.
A full cup of wine at the right time is worth more than all the kingdoms of this earth!
To judge a composer's work, one must consider it as a whole.
There is a world of difference between a Mahler eighth note and a normal eighth note.
I don't let myself get carried away by my own ideas; I abandon 19 out of 20 of them every day.
In the theatrical works we love and admire the most, the ending of the drama generally takes place offstage.
Only when I experience do I compose - only when I compose do I experience.
Don't bother looking at the view - I have already composed it.
For the last month I have been a strict vegetarian. The moral effects of this regime are immense, owing to the voluntary subjugation of the flesh and the resulting absence of desires. You will appreciate how full I am of this idea when I tell you that I expect it to work the regeneration of mankind. I advise you to change over to a natural way of life, with proper nourishment (wholemeal bread), and you will soon feel the benefit.
All that is not perfect down to the smallest detail is doomed to perish.
Spring won't let me stay in this house any longer! I must get out and breathe the air deeply again.
A true personality . . . is like a robust organism that, with unconscious sureness, seeks out and digests the nourishment appropriate to it and vigorously rejects that which is unsuitable.
I was a crazy young man who let himself be blinded by his passions and obeyed only the impulses of the moment.
The impressions of the spriritual experiences gave my future life its form and content.
I live like a Hottentot. I cannot exchange one sensible word with anyone.
It's not just a question of conquering a summit previously unknown, but of tracing, step by step, a new pathway to it.
Destiny smiles upon me but without making me the least bit happier.
Behind me the branches of a wasted and sterile existence are cracking.
It is always the same with me; only when I experience something do I compose, and only when composing do I experience! After all, a musician's nature can hardly be expressed in words.
The call of love sounds very hollow among these immobile rocks.
Life's been nothing but paperwork.
In its beginnings, music was merely chamber music, meant to be listened to in a small space by a small audience.
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