Never mind, put any book on the piano, and someone can turn from time to time, so I need not look as though I played by heart.

It's not that music is too imprecise for words, but too precise.

This is what I think art is and what I demand of it: that it pull everyone in, that it show one person another's most intimate thoughts and feelings, that it throw open the window of the soul.

Life and art are not two different things.

Never mind, put any book on the piano, and someone can turn from time to time, so I need not look as though I played by heart.

I know perfectly well that no musician can make his thoughts or his talents different to what Heaven has made them; but I also know that if Heaven had given him good ones, he must also be able to develop them properly.

First and foremost an artist should pay homage to grandness, honour and bow to it, and not try to extinguish the fierce flames of such, in an attempt to have his own feeble light shine brighter. When one isn't able to acknowledge greatness, I would really want to know how he endeavours to make me experience it.