Tradition Is Not The Worship Of Ashes,

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

But It's Peculiar, As Soon As I Am In The Midst Of Nature And By Myself, Everything That Is Base And Trivial Vanishes Without Trace. On Such Days Nothing Scares Me; And This Helps Me Again And Again.

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

Tradition Is Tending The Flame, Not Worshiping The Ashes.

Tradition Is The Spreading Of Fire And Not The Veneration Of Ashes.