Beware of missing chances; otherwise it may be altogether too late some day.

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.

Supreme serenity still remains the Ideal of great Art. The shapes and transitory forms of life are but stages toward this Ideal, which Christ's religion illuminates with His divine light.

Companions, in misery and worse, that is what we all are, and to try to change this substantially avails us nothing.

I carry a deep sadness of the heart which must now and then break out in sound.