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

Music is the inarticulate speech of the heart, which cannot be compressed into words, because it is infinite.

Joy is not in things; it is in us.

The purpose of art: to make the unconscious conscious.

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

Never look at the trombones, it only encourages them.

Imagination creates reality.

The language of tones belongs equally to all mankind, and melody is the absolute language in which the musician speaks to every heart.

It is a truth forever, that where the speech of man stops short there Music's reign begins.

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

A political man is disgusting, but a political wife, horrible.

Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos.

The world is come upon me, I used to keep it a long way off, But now I have been run over and I am in the hands of the hospital staff.

can't hold my tongue.

Honestly, sometimes I get really fed up of my subconscious - it's like it's got a mind of its own.

Being a scientist and staring immensity and eternity in the face every day is as grand and inspiring as it gets.

I'm a musician. It's what I do! I wouldn't be too good at anything else.

Go beyond tolerance to acceptance.

Avoid the eye that discovers with rapidity the bad, and is slow to see the good.

We wake in the night, to stereophonic silence.

It's very important to go through periods where you sound just rotten and you know it, and you have to persevere or give up.