Oral musical traditions are rooted in assured and scrupulous faith.

A person of any mental quality has ideas of his own. This is common sense.

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.

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

My mind and fingers have worked like the damned. Homer, the Bible, Plato, Locke, Lamartine, Chateaubriand, Beethoven, Bach, Hummel, Mozart, Weber are all around me. I study them. I devour them with fury.

Life is only a long and bitter suicide, and faith alone can transform this suicide into a sacrifice.

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