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Pay no attention to what the critics say. A statue has never been erected in honor of a critic.
Music is, for me, like a beautiful mosaic which God has put together. He takes all the pieces in his hand, throws them into the world, and we have to recreate the picture from the pieces.
If I could express the same thing with words as with music, I would, of course, use a verbal expression. Music is something autonomous and much richer. Music begins where the possibilities of language end. That is why I write music.
I often conduct an orchestra in my sleep; my orchestras are so huge that the back desks of the violas vanish into the horizon. And everything is so wonderful.
For me, music begins where words end.
No one ever erected a statue of a critic.
Whereas most other modern composers are engaged in manufacturing cocktails of every hue and description, I offer the public pure cold water.
All the doctors who wanted to forbid me to smoke and to drink are dead,
Music begins where the possibilities of language end
No statue has ever been put up to a critic.
If we understood the world, we would realize that there is a logic of harmony underlying its manifold apparent dissonances.
Music is on a higher plane than everything else in this world.
For an instant God opens his door and His orchestra plays the Fifth Symphony,
