You know what I think? If I am tired now, I don't mind, because I have eternity to rest.

The advice I am giving always to all my students is above all to study the music profoundly... music is like the ocean, and the instruments are little or bigger islands, very beautiful for the flowers and trees.

Sometimes one is without the pleasure of playing. But when the silence of the audience is perfect, we recover that.

I was my own teacher and pupil, in a comradeship so firm and persevering that the most trying incidents of my life served only to strengthen the union.

The piano is a monster that screams when you touch its teeth.

(I was) my own teacher and pupil, and thanks to the efforts of both, they were not discontented with each other.

A man without patience is a lamp without oil.