Music Is My Life And My Life

True Perfection In All Things Is No Longer Known Or Prized - You Must Write Music That Is Either So Simple A Coachman Could Sing It, Or So Unintelligble That Audiences Like It Simply Because No Sane Person Could Understand It.

When I Am At Peace With Myself . . . Then Thoughts Flow Into Me Most Easily And At Their Best. Where They Come From And How - That I Cannot Say . . . I'd Be Willing To Work Forever And Forever If I Were Permitted To Write Only Such Music As I Want To Write And Can Write - Which I Myself Think Good.

What's Even Worse Than A Flute? - Two Flutes!

I Really Do Not Aim At Any Originality.

Music Is My Life And My Life Is Music. Anyone Who Does Not Understand This Is Not Worthy Of God.