You cannot imagine how it spoils one to have been a child prodigy.

When you write the story of two happy lovers, let the story be set on the banks of Lake Como.

Inspiration is enough to give expression to the tone in singing, especially when the song is without words.

So let us not worry, and look instead as it has been taught us to do, as the birds of the air and the lilies of the field, keeping complete faith in Our Father's goodness.

It is impossible to imagine a more complete fusion with nature than that of the Gypsy.

For the virtuoso, musical works are in fact nothing but tragic and moving materializations of his emotions; he is called upon to make them speak, weep, sing and sigh, to recreate them in accordance with his own consciousness. In this way he, like the composer, is a creator, for he must have within himself those passions that he wishes to bring so intensely to life.

Music embodies feeling without forcing it to contend and combine with thought, as it is forced in most arts and especially in the art of words.