The call of love sounds very hollow among these immobile rocks.
Discipline, work. Work, discipline.
It is easier to achieve a desired result in short pieces.
Behind me the branches of a wasted and sterile existence are cracking.
The impressions of the spriritual experiences gave my future life its form and content.
Never let oneself be guided by the opinion of one's contemporaries. Continue steadfastly on one's way.
You must renounce all superficiality, all convention, all vanity and delusion.
In the theatrical works we love and admire the most, the ending of the drama generally takes place offstage.
What I wanted and what I visualized while composing has not always been realized.
The real art of conducting consists in transitions.
The further the music develops, the more complex the apparatus used by the composer to express his thoughts becomes.
I live like a Hottentot. I cannot exchange one sensible word with anyone.
I hope you will no longer accuse me of a lack of delicacy. as I now count on your understanding.
I have become a different person. I don't know whether this person is better, he certainly is not happier.
An operetta is simply a small and gay opera.
Even if people censure me, they should do so hat in hand.
The spirit can assert itself only through the medium of clear form.
Destiny smiles upon me but without making me the least bit happier.
I beg of you... never assume an inner or an outer pose, never a disguise.
I was a crazy young man who let himself be blinded by his passions and obeyed only the impulses of the moment.
