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.

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.

Life is a bubble in the ocean of time. At the same time, it can hold all the water of the ocean in her heart.

Your Hands And Feet Gets Your MindTo Where It Wants To Be!

You're hung up on something that's never going to love you back.

An excess of law inescapably weakens the rule of law.

In my mind, I'm writing for everybody.

There’s a moment of profound sadness that can be dispelled only by summoning my anger.

Rock is a great master of life. It teaches us this simple philosophy: Stay firm!

I lose all control after two drinks of anything

I have often regretted having spoken, never having kept silent.

Inside was the second LP album of a comedian's performance before an audience.