Tradition Is Laziness.

A True Personality . . . Is Like A Robust Organism That, With Unconscious Sureness, Seeks Out And Digests The Nourishment Appropriate To It And Vigorously Rejects That Which Is Unsuitable.

Fortunately, Something Always Remains To Be Harvested. So Let Us Not Be Idle.

There Is A World Of Difference Between A Mahler Eighth Note And A Normal Eighth Note.

If I Weren't The Way I Am, I Shouldn't Write My Symphonies.

It's Not Just A Question Of Conquering A Summit Previously Unknown, But Of Tracing, Step By Step, A New Pathway To It.