[on The Music Of Richard Strauss:] Too

It Is Easier To Analyze A Work In Its Form, In Its Evolution, Than Simply To Love It With All The Living Forces Of Our Heart. It Is Easier To Define Its Peculiarities And Its Details Than To Draw Out Of It Its Emotion, Its Thought.

You Should Never Listen To Someone Practice. That Is Their Work And Theirs Alone.

Do Not Take Up Music Unless You Would Rather Die Than Not Do So.

Everything We Know By Heart Enriches Us And Helps Us Find Ourselves. If It Should Get In The Way Of Finding Ourselves, It Is Because We Have No Personality.

Do Nothing For Effect. Do It For Truth.