I owe very, very much to Mozart; and if one studies, for instance, the way in which I write for string quartet, then one cannot deny that I have lear….

Music is only understood when one goes away singing it and only loved when one falls asleep with it in one's head, and finds it still there on waking….

Rests always sound well..

I am the slave of an internal power more powerful than my education..

I have never seen faces, but because I have looked people in the eye, only their gazes..

I find above all that the expression, atonal music, is most unfortunate — it is on a par with calling flying the art of not falling, or swimming the ….

In Spring! In the creation of art it must be as it is in Spring!.

Lucidity is the first purpose of color in music..

If it is art, it is not for all, and if it is for all, it is not art..

My music is not modern, it is merely badly played.

Market value is irrelevant to intrinsic value. ... Unqualified judgment can at most claim to decide the market-value - a value that can be in inverse….

You cannot expect the Form before the Idea,For they will come into being together..

I never was very capable of expressing my feelings or emotions in words. I don't know whether this is the cause why I did it in music and also why I ….

Great art must proceed to precision and brevity. It presupposes the alert mind of an educated listener who, in a singleact of thinking, includes with….

If music is frozen architecture, then the potpourri is frozen coffee-table gossip... Potpourri is the art of adding apples to pears..

I was never revolutionary. The only revolutionary in our time was Strauss!.

An artistic impression is substantially the resultant of two components. One what the work of art gives the onlooker - the other, what he is capable ….

Composing is a slowed-down improvisation; often one cannot write fast enough to keep up with the stream of ideas..

Although our "gentle air" cannot improve the way hate and envy look, it does seem not to encourage firmness and decision. All is compromise; caution ….

There is still plenty of good music to be written in C major..

My music is not lovely..