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composer, conductor
It was an...
It was an initiation into the love of learning, of learning how to learn . . . as a matter of interdisciplinary...
Music . ....
Music . . . can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.
Source: The...
I'm not interested...
I'm not interested in having an orchestra sound like itself. I want it to sound like the...
The key to...
The key to the mystery of a great artist is that for reasons unknown, he will give away his energies and his life just...
Any great work...
Any great work of art . . . revives and readapts time and space, and the measure of its success is the extent to which...
A true personality...
A true personality . . . is like a robust organism that, with unconscious sureness, seeks out and digests the...
A symphony must...
A symphony must be like the world. It must contain everything.
Source: In Friendly...
If a composer...
If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not believe trying to say it in...
The important thing...
The important thing is never to let oneself be guided by the opinion of one's contemporaries; to continue steadfastly...
If you think...
If you think you're boring your audience, go slower not faster.
Source: In Friendly...
Don't bother looking...
Don't bother looking at the view -- I have already composed it.
Source: Comment to...
Life's been nothing...
Life's been nothing but paperwork.
Source: In The Speaker's Electronic Reference...
The point is...
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,...
You must renounce...
You must renounce all superficiality, all convention, all vanity and delusion . . .
The longer you...
The longer you live and the more you learn, the more clearly you will feel the difference between the few men who are...