It should be one's sole endeavor to see everything afresh and create it anew.
From Gustav Mahler
I don't let myself get carried away by my own ideas - I abandon 19 out of 20 of them every day.
Don't bother looking at the view - I have already composed it.
I am hitting my head against the walls, but the walls are giving way.
A symphony must be like the world. It must contain everything.
The point is not to take the world's opinion as a guiding star but to go one's way in life and working unerringly, neither depressed by failure nor seduced by applause.
If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music.
The call of love sounds very hollow among these immobile rocks.
The impressions of the spriritual experiences gave my future life its form and content.
All that is not perfect down to the smallest detail is doomed to perish.
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