When I Have Reached A Summit, I

To Write A Symphony Is, For Me, To Construct A World.

Behind Me The Branches Of A Wasted And Sterile Existence Are Cracking.

We All Return. It Is This Certainty That Gives Meaning To Life And It Does Not Make The Slightest Difference Whether Or Not In A Later Incarnation We Remember The Former Life. What Counts Is Not The Individual And His Comfort, But The Great Aspiration To The Perfect And The Pure Which Goes On In Each Incarnation.

What Is Best In Music Is Not To Be Found In The Notes.

What I Wanted And What I Visualized While Composing Has Not Always Been Realized.