The further the music develops, the more complex the apparatus used by the composer to express his thoughts becomes.

I also had a brother who was like me a musician and a composer. A man of great talent, far more gifted than I. He died very young... he killed himself in the prime of his life.

Fortissimo at last!

( on seeing Niagara Falls )

If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music.

In its beginnings, music was merely chamber music, meant to be listened to in a small space by a small audience.

I was a crazy young man who let himself be blinded by his passions and obeyed only the impulses of the moment.