Mozart tapped the source from which all music flows, expressing himself with a spontaneity and refinement and breathtaking rightness.

The main thing is to be satisfied with your work yourself. It's useless to have an audience happy if you are not happy.

Music that is born complex is not inherently better or worse than music that is born simple.

I hope my recordings of my own works won't inhibit other people's performances. The brutal fact is that one doesn't always get the exact tempo one wants, although one improves with experience.

Mozart tapped the source from which all music flows, expressing himself with a spontaneity and refinement and breathtaking rightness.

If a literary man puts together two words about music, one of them will be wrong.

I adore extravagance but I abhor waste.