 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 refuge. |
| Wherever the fish are, that's where we go. |
| Joy is not in things; it is in us. |
| Richard Wagner, a musician who wrote music which is better than it sounds. |
| Achievements, seldom credited to their source, are the result of unspeakable drudgery and worries. |
| I have long been convinced that my artistic ideal stands or falls with Germany. Only the Germany that we love and desire can help us achieve that ideal. |
| I am convinced that there are universal currents of Divine Thought vibrating the ether everywhere and that any who can feel these vibrations is inspired. |
| I write music with an exclamation point! |
| Divorce is one of the most financially traumatic things you can go through. Money spent on getting mad or getting even is money wasted. |
| I hate this fast growing tendency to chain men to machines in big factories and deprive them of all joy in their efforts - the plan will lead to cheap men and cheap products. |
| Never look at the trombones, it only encourages them. |
| I wish I could score everything for horns. |
| Imagination creates reality. |
| I am fond of them, of the inferior beings of the abyss, of those who are full of longing. |
