I like the plot of The Nutcracker - not at all.

Music is an incomparably more powerful means and is a subtler language for expressing the thousand different moments of the soul's moods.

Where the heart does not enter; there can be no music.

To regret the past, to hope in the future, and never to be satisfied with the present: that is what I spend my whole life doing

Truly there would be reason to go mad were it not for music.

Inspiration is a guest that does not willingly visit the lazy.

Madam, you ask me how I compose. I compose sitting down.

Music possesses much richer means of expression and it is a more subtle medium for translating the 1000 shifting moments of the feelings of the soul.

After the last notes of Gotterdammerung I felt as though I had been let out of prison.

The creative process is like music which takes root with extraordinary force and rapidity

What I need is to believe in myself again — for my faith has been greatly undermined; it seems to me my role is over.

The one who gets rich is the one who devotes himself to his work

A grateful heart is good medicine.

I'll sleep when no one wants to hire me!

I don't define myself. I'm just a woman in love with another woman.

I like to go into a little shell and be a hermit and make music for a while.

The history of empires is the record of human misery; the history of the sciences is that of the greatness and happiness of mankind.

Seeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal.

The caricature of my own face always makes me laugh.

I had been found in a mud puddle at 4:30 in the morning.

From now on, I want you to practice reframing other people's negativity as a reminder of how not to be.