Nor do I hear in my imagination the parts successively, I hear them all at once. What a delight this is! All this inventing, this producing, takes place in a pleasing, lively dream.
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Nor do I hear in my imagination the parts successively, I hear them all at once. What a delight this is! All this inventing, this producing, takes place in a pleasing, lively dream.
All I insist on, and nothing else, is that you should show the whole world that you are not afraid. Be silent, if you choose; but when it is necessary, speak—and speak in such a way that people will remember it.
My fatherland has always the first claim on me.
She will never learn the most necessary, most difficult and principal thing in music, that is time, because from childhood she has designedly cultivated the habit of ignoring the beat.
I unfortunately see that you trust more the gossip and writings of other people than me, which means that you don't trust in me at all. I can assure you that I do not find this at all unsettling; they may right themselves blind and you may believe them, if you prefer, but I shall not change a hair on my head.