There is music wherever there is rhythm, as there is life wherever there beats a pulse..

Old age is a time of humiliations, the most disagreeable of which, for me, is that I cannot work long at sustained high pressure with no leaks in con….

The true creator may be recognized by his ability always to find about him, in the commonest and humblest thing, items worthy of note..

I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom….

To continue in one path is to go backward..

It is my conviction that the public always shows itself more honest in its spontaneity than do those who officially set themselves up as judges of wo….

Conductors' careers are made for the most part with 'Romantic' music. 'Classic' music eliminates the conductor; we do not remember him in it..

Music is the sole domain in which man realizes the present..

To be deprived of art and left alone with philosophy is to be close to Hell..

Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven..

I cannot now evaluate the events that, at the end of those thirty years, made me discover the necessity of religious belief. I was not reasoned into ….

We have a duty towards music, namely, to invent it..