Let Your Intimate Friends Be Chosen From

My Symphonies Would Have Reached Opus 100 If I Had But Written Them Down... Sometimes I Am So Full Of Music, And So Overflowing With Melody, That I Find It Simply Impossible To Write Down Anything.

You Should Neither Play Bad Compositions, Nor, Unless Compelled, Listen To Them.

For Me Wagner Is Impossible... He Talks Without Ever Stopping. One Can't Just Talk All The Time.

I Am So Fresh In Soul And Spirit That Life Gushes And Bubbles Around Me In A Thousand Springs.

The Aesthetic Principle Is The Same In Every Art, Only The Material Differs.