Music is the heart of life." She speaks love; "without it, there is no possible good and with it everything is beautiful.

It is my fervent wish and my greatest ambition to leave a work with a few useful instructions for the pianists after me.

I find little in the works of Beethoven, Berlioz, Wagner and others when they are led by a conductor who functions like a windmill.

The character of instrumental music... lets the emotions radiate and shine in their own character without presuming to display them as real or imaginary representations.

In life one must decide whether to conjugate the verb to have or the verb to be.

Music is the heart of life." She speaks love; "without it, there is no possible good and with it everything is beautiful.

The day will come when all nations amidst which the Jews are dwelling will have to raise the question of their wholesale expulsion, a question which will be one of life or death, good health or chronic disease, peaceful existence or perpetual social fever.