“ With the coming of spring, I am calm again. ”
Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire.
~ Gustav Mahler
The point is not to take the world's opinion as a guiding star but to go one's way in life and working unerringly, neither depressed by failure nor seduced by applause.
Spring won't let me stay in this house any longer! I must get out and breathe the air deeply again.
If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music.
