Even if I know I shall never change the masses, never transform anything permanent, all I ask is that the good things also have their place, their re….

The whole duty of a conductor is comprised in his ability to indicate the right tempo..

I am fond of them, of the inferior beings of the abyss, of those who are full of longing..

I believe in God, Mozart, and Beethoven..

Imagination creates reality..

The most tremendous genius raised Mozart above all masters, in all centuries and in all the arts..

Human dignity begins to assert itself only at the point where man is distinguishable from the beast by pity for it..

Music truely has to all other arts the same relation as religion to the church..

What a wonderful work Wagner has done for humanity in translating the toil of life into the readable script of music! For those who seek the tale of ….

It is impossible to communicate with Schumann. The man is hopeless; he doesn't talk at all..

In contrast to reincarnation and karma, all other views seem petty and narrow.

You know my faithfulness to you, never can another own my heart, never - never - never....

Blessed be, the genius who never knew good fortune! Genius in itself already means so much; what meaning does luck still hold for him?.

I am writing Parsifal only for my wife - if I had to depend on the German spirit, I should have nothing more to say..

I know nothing at all about music..

Achievements, seldom credited to their source, are the result of unspeakable drudgery and worries..

The essence of higher instrumental music lays herein that one is able to express in tones that what one is unable to say in words..

Those who grasp the whole, will also comprehend all parts of that whole, even when immediate technical understanding is lacking, and recognize and ma….

The oldest, truest, most beautiful organ of music, the origin to which alone our music owes its being, is the human voice..

Any so-called stimulus program is a ruse. The government can increase its spending only by reducing private spending equivalently..

I am convinced that there are universal currents of Divine Thought vibrating the ether everywhere and that any who can feel these vibrations is inspi….