We must learn to die, and to die in the fullest sense of the word. The fear of the end is the source of all lovelessness.

Whatever my passions demand of me, I become for the time being - musician, poet, director, author, lecturer or anything else..

Joy is not in things; it is in us..

It is a truth forever, that where the speech of man stops short there Music's reign begins..

It should not be presumed that these people (the Jews), who are so separated from us by their religion, have any right to make our laws. But why blam….

The sounds proceeding from the instruments of symphonic music seem to be the very organs of the mysteries of creation; for they reveal, as it were, t….

The immoral profession of musical criticism must be abolished..

A political man is disgusting, but a political wife, horrible..

True drama can be conceived only as resulting from the collective impulse of all the arts to communicate in the most immediate way with a collective ….

I wish I could score everything for horns..

These revelations expressed through Art work upon the soul with a force carrying its own conviction and permeate our sentient life with a sense of tr….

Divorce is one of the most financially traumatic things you can go through. Money spent on getting mad or getting even is money wasted..

Plant life instead of animal food is the keystone of regeneration. Jesus used bread instead of flesh and wine in place of blood at the Lord's Supper..

...music is the living God in our bosoms..

Wherever the fish are, that's where we go..

The only form of music is melody, without melody music is not feasible, and music and melody are quite inseparable..

Certain things in Mozart will and can never be excelled..

Whether government finances its added spending by increasing taxes, by borrowing, or by inflating the currency, the added spending will be offset by ….

Whatever I thought right, to others seemed wrong; what I held to be bad, others approved of..

One might say that where Religion becomes artificial, it is reserved for Art to save the spirit of religion..

The error in the art-genre of Opera consists herein: a Means of expression (Music) has been made the end, while the End of expression (the Drama) has….