"You cannot imagine the wild enthusiasm that these two men created in Vienna. Newspapers went into raptures over each …"

"That the sweetly intoxicating three-four rhythm which took hold of hand & foot, necessarily eclipsed great & serious …"

"The Prelude to Tristan and Isolde reminds me of the old Italian painting of a martyr whose intestines are slowly unwo…"

"(Referring to the music of Anton Bruckner) "Nightmarish hangover style" (traumverwirrten Katzenjammerstil)"

"The beautiful is and remains beautiful though it arouse no emotion whatever, and though there be no one to look at it…"

"Music means itself."

"[Music is] a language which we speak and understand but cannot translate"

"Eventually, Jacob and his household arrived at Luz (also called Bethel) in Canaan. Jacob built an altar there and nam…"

"Come to me, all you that need instruction, and learn in my school.| Why do you admit that you are ignorant and do not…"

"While I was still young, before I went on my travels,"