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I don't see myself necessarily having a burning desire to write a symphony.

In reading, a lonely quiet concert is given to our minds; all our mental faculties will be present in this symphonic exaltation.

If you listen to a lot of music, it gradually seeps into your consciousness or your unconsciousness and comes out in your music.

There's no doubt that there's certain songs and arrangements of music that release a chemical reaction in my brain. This sounds a little goofy, but I really believe that. It's such a euphoric experience that I sort of want to chase that experience as often as possible.

When we make the cerebral state the beginning of an action, and in no sense the condition of a perception, we place the perceived images of things outside the image of our body, and thus replace perception within the things themselves.

Our subliminal mental processes operate outside awareness because they arise in these portions of our mind that are inaccessible to our conscious self; their inaccessibility is due to the architecture of the brain rather than because they have been subject to Freudian motivational forces like repression.

A symphony must be like the world. It must contain everything.

Owing to some peculiarity in my nervous system, I have perception of some things, which no one else has; or at least very few, if any... I can throw rays from every quarter of the universe into one vast focus.

An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing.

Whenever I heard the song of a bird and the answering call of its mate, I could visualize the notes in scale, all built up within my consciousness as a natural symphony.