A Symphony Must Be Like The World.

I Am Thrice Homeless, As A Native Of Bohemia In Austria, As An Austrian Among Germans, And As A Jew Throughout The World. Everywhere An Intruder, Never Welcomed.

Never Let Oneself Be Guided By The Opinion Of One's Contemporaries. Continue Steadfastly On One's Way.

You Must Renounce All Superficiality, All Convention, All Vanity And Delusion.

A Full Cup Of Wine At The Right Time Is Worth More Than All The Kingdoms Of This Earth!

It Is Always The Same With Me; Only When I Experience Something Do I Compose, And Only When Composing Do I Experience! After All, A Musician's Nature Can Hardly Be Expressed In Words.