If you want to please the critics, don't play too loud, too soft, too fast, too slow.

After I die, I shall return to earth as a gatekeeper of a bordello and I won't let any of you enter.

Liberty, in my opinion, is the only orthodoxy within the limits of which art may express itself and flourish freely-liberty that is the best of all things in the life of man, if it is all one with wisdom and virtue.

Can't you read? The score demands 'con amore,' and what are you doing? You are playing it like married men!

I kissed my first girl and smoked my first cigarette on the same day. I haven't had time for tobacco since.

God tells me how the music should sound, but you stand in the way.

If you want to please the critics, don't play too loud, too soft, too fast, too slow.