I have become a different person. I don't know whether this person is better, he certainly is not happier.

Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire.

If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music.

Beauty and fullness of tone can be achieved by having the whole orchestra play with high clarinets and a carefully selected number of piccolos.

You must renounce all superficiality, all convention, all vanity and delusion.

The point is not to take the world's opinion as a guiding star but to go one's way in life and working unerringly, neither depressed by failure nor seduced by applause.

What is best in music is not to be found in the notes.

A symphony must be like the world. It must contain everything.

But it's peculiar, as soon as I am in the midst of nature and by myself, everything that is base and trivial vanishes without trace. On such days nothing scares me; and this helps me again and again.

I am hitting my head against the walls, but the walls are giving way.

If you think you're boring your audience, go slower not faster.

Fantasies are the escape that every prisoner of the soul indulges in.

Whatever begun with planning, ends in a victory.

Admitting errors clears the score and proves you wiser than before.

I am sorry to see you here, but if you had fought like a man, you needn't be hanged like a dog.

Broken things are powerful."Things about to break are stronger still.The last shot from the brittle bow is truest.

Take not thy thunder from us, but take away our pride.

One had better die fighting against injustice than die like a dog or a rat in a trap.

We must be authors of the history of our age.

Greatest risk is not development of new product, but development of customers and markets

We can translate word and letter into color - [Arthur] Rimbaud stated that in his color vowels, words quote "words" can be read in silent color.