“Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule.”

“because human lives are composed in precisely such a fashion. They are composed like music”

“The instinctive reaction of a world grown morally solipsistic is: 'Do I like that ruling? Does that ruling serve my interests?”

“Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together. ”

“As to...old composers like Schubert or Beethoven, I imagine that, while modern music expresses both feeling, thought and imagination, they expressed pure feeling. And you know all day sitting at work, eating, walking, etc., you have hundreds of feelings that can't be put into words. And that is why I think that in a sense music is the highest of the arts, because it really begins where the others leave off.”

“Their confusion nourishes me, their stuttering is like divine music to my ears.”