Where there's music there can be no evil.
Music is the inarticulate speech of the heart, which cannot be compressed into words, because it is infinite.
I regard the Jewish race as the born enemy of pure humanity and everything that is noble in it.
Joy is not in things; it is in us.
The purpose of art: to make the unconscious conscious.
I believe in God, Mozart and Beethoven, and likewise their disciples and apostles; - I believe in the Holy Spirit and the truth of the one, indivisible Art; - I believe that this Art proceeds from God, and lives within the hearts of all illumined men; - I believe that he who once has bathed in the sublime delights of this high Art, is consecrate to Her for ever, and never can deny Her; - I believe that through Art all men are saved.
The only form of music is melody, without melody music is not feasible, and music and melody are quite inseparable.
Far from his illness The wolves ran on through the evergreen forests, The peasant river was untempted by the fashionable quays; By mourning tongues The death of the poet was kept from his poems.
Maybe at 20 you can write well, but I don't think you could do what I do. Some things have to happen to you first.
What you want is the thing that critics love and audiences love, but that's the hardest thing to do.
It's better to forget than remember me and cry.