But, on the other hand, if Schubert were alive today, he would find even richer fields to plow.

All music has to speak in some form or other.

Within each individual young person you meet, you have the same fields to plough. The trick is just to wake them up, to sharpen their ears for what's already there in the music.

With creative people, truly new horizons open up.

In Romanticism, the main determinant is the mood, the atmosphere. And in that regard, you could also describe Schubert as a Romantic.

The future? Like unwritten books and unborn children, you don't talk about it.

Unfortunately, it happens all too seldom that you really disappear behind a work, that you are no longer audible as an interpreter.

Many, many composers have only found their way to a certain form, through familiarizing themselves with texts.

Toward the end of his life, one can sense that he was no longer thinking his way into the minds of others, causing them to speak on his behalf, but that he was now speaking for himself.

The composition of a single melody is born out of a bit of text, perhaps the first line, but it can also be the entire strophe; it can even be the poem's overall form.

But the thing that will always occupy me the most is music.

There is a powerful relationship between our true spiritual condition and our attitude and actions concerning money and possessions.

Depression isn't a condition, it's a state of mind.

What objectivity and the study of philosophy requires is not an 'open mind,' but an active mind - a mind able and eagerly willing to examine ideas, but to examine them criticially.

I despise computers in many ways. I think they’re hopelessly underevolved and overrated.

I don't have kids. Maybe that's kept me young. I have a wife for almost 50 years and she looks after me a little bit like I was seven years-old.

I have four dogs, four horses, a cat, and a bunch of wild frogs

You will attract everything you require - money, people, connections.. PAY ATTENTION to what's being set in front of you.

I'm 47 now, and I'm at that stage where I'm still young but I'm not young. I'm not old but I'm getting old, and I have stuff at home that reminds me of people and places.

I've never really had any trouble coming up with ideas; they just grow, like weeds. The weeding is the hard part.

Cyling has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world