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Don't bother looking at the view - I have already composed it.
If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music.
Destiny smiles upon me but without making me the least bit happier.
With the coming of spring, I am calm again.
When I have reached a summit, I leave it with great reluctance, unless it is to reach for another, higher one.
It's not just a question of conquering a summit previously unknown, but of tracing, step by step, a new pathway to it.
The real art of conducting consists in transitions.
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... →
A symphony must be like the world. It must contain everything.
It should be one's sole endeavor to see everything afresh and create it anew.
Spring won't let me stay in this house any longer! I must get out and breathe the air deeply again.
I am hitting my head against the walls, but the walls are giving way.
In its beginnings, music was merely chamber music, meant to be listened to in a small space by a small audience.
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