Those are miracles that no merely human brain can work. The artist is merely the sound conduct of a Force that dictates to him what he should do.

Without craftsmanship, inspiration is a mere reed shaken in the wind.

One should never forget that by actually perfecting one piece one gains and learns more than by starting or half-finishing a dozen.

The idea comes to me from outside of me - and is like a gift. I then take the idea and make it my own - that is where the skill lies.

Study Bach. There you will find everything.

If there is anyone here whom I have not insulted, I beg his pardon.

Reviewer: 'One of your themes was very similar to one of Beethoven's!' Brahms replied, 'Of course it is. Everyone steals - the important thing is to do it brilliantly.

It is a real pleasure to see music so bright and spontaneous expressed with corresponding ease and grace.

It is not hard to compose, but what is fabulously hard is to leave the superfluous notes under the table.

If we cannot write with the beauty of Mozart, let us at least try to write with his purity.

The only true immortality lies in one's children.

A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it bearing within him the image of a cathedral.

I look back on my life like a good day's work it is done and I am satisfied with it.

The artist who is after success lets himself be influenced by the public. Generally such an artist contributes nothing new, for the public acclaims only what it already knows, what it recognizes.

I have one speed, I have one gear: Go!

I learned that he that will be a hero will barely be a man; that he that will be nothing but a doer of his work is sure of his manhood.

When I was a kid I respected authority, then as a teenager I gave none; in middle age I expected it; now in old age I live by the word.

Readiness for God means that we are ready to do the tiniest little thing or the great big thing, it makes no difference

No daring is fatal. The whole logic of the universe is contained in daring, in creating from the flimsiest, slenderest support.

A witty saying proves nothing, but saying something pointless gets people's attention.

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